French Fries with Eyes – yes, you read it right. It’s just one enticing seafood recipe in The Martha’s Vineyard Cookbook, a new book by Julia Blanter and published by Rizzoli New York. I almost never review books, but I’m making an exception here because I’m hopelessly addicted to trying new seafood recipes. I’ve spent a lifetime catching fish and eating almost everything that lives in fresh and saltwater.

Let me back up a little. I like fluke fishing, and one of my favorite natural baits is a strip of squid topped with a…