Ditto the little plates at Mediterranean restaurants (a caprese salad consisting of mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil drizzled with olive oil can be 400 calories) and the small plates at Korean restaurants (fried spring rolls and coconut shrimp).

CNN: The new restaurant fat traps

New England is famous for seafood, for inventing fried clams, for its lobster rolls, for its namesake clam chowder, and much more, but one of its least well known cuisines is the very unique seafood of the small Rhode Island coast.

FORBES: Rhode Island Seafood

Fried squid, shrimp dumplings, spring rolls -- each delicious.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Around our house, when not infected by the Birdseye plague, real food often meant chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, sugar peas, field peas, black-eyed peas, lima beans, green beans, all greens, ambrosia, okra, corn, tomato aspic, squash casseroles, pot roast, fried fish, chicken and dumplings, hot rolls, biscuits, cornbread, cakes, pies, fudge, divinity and Mama's homemade vegetable soup, which was world famous in our family.

NPR: Linda Ellerbee, Taking 'Big Bites'

Atlantans and visitors flock to this rustic, subway-tiled post-industrial space for Southern favourites such as peel-and-eat shrimp, Georgia trout and fried clams, plus classics like iced oysters, lobster rolls, hickory-roasted fish or she-crab soup.

BBC: Business trip: Atlanta

There she serves spicy rose petal salads, spring rolls stuffed with begonias and pansies, and crepe-fried platters of roses, hibiscus, banana flowers and frangipanis.

WSJ: Flowers for the Eyes, and the Mouth