This year, the “calamari comeback” chef might not be coming back. John Bordieri became known as the “calamari ninja” for standing wordlessly, clad head-to-toe in black, and holding a platter of sautéed squid during a video roll call of states that nominated Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Executive chef John Bordieri is photographed with a dish of calamari outside Iggy’s Boardwalk restaurant Friday, June 7, 2024, in Warwick, R.I. This year, the “calamari comeback” chef might not be coming back. Bordieri became known as the “calamari ninja” for standing wordlessly, clad head-to-toe in black, and holding a platter of sauteed squid during a video roll call of states that nominated Joe Biden during the 2020 Democratic National Convention .
The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848. Bordieri said he’s open to doing a video contribution similar to 2020’s. But he’s planning to be off during the convention and has no travel plans then, except to suburban Boston for an Aug. 25 concert by country star Kenny Chesney.
Then-Rhode Island Democratic Party chair Joseph McNamara, a state lawmaker who successfully lobbied to make calamari Rhode Island’s official appetizer, taped the state’s 30-second video contribution on Oakland Beach in Warwick, near Iggy’s Boardwalk restaurant, where Bordieri is executive chef. Bordieri said he wasn’t going for a ninja look, only wearing his normal black uniform, “and I just happened to wear black gloves that day.” When he arrived on the beach, he says, producers “looked me up and down and said, ‘You’re going to be in the shot.’”
When he went to work in the morning, he recalled: “The phone’s ringing all day long. The business phone. My phone. Reporters, TV, newspaper, radio, the whole nine yards. I was talking to everybody.” And, of course, their calamari sales spiked.
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