This post was originally published in 2015. It still makes us hungry. Christmas Eve’s Feast of the Seven Fishes is, by Italian Catholic tradition, supposed to be a penitential meal, and it may ...

The Feast of the Seven Fishes — in Italian “La Vigilia,” which means “The Eve” — is one of these Christmas Eve traditions. So, where does this tradition come from? This feast stems ...

So his family was able to begin taking part in an old tradition: the Feast of the Seven Fishes. The Italian American festivity involves indulging upon at least seven types of seafood on Christmas Eve.

This is our family’s recipe book for the Feast of the Seven Fishes. We call it “The Big Night,” and it stands alone as our most important gathering of the year. The origin of this Italian ...

This post was originally published in 2015. It still makes us hungry. Christmas Eve’s Feast of the Seven Fishes is, by Italian Catholic tradition, supposed to be a penitential meal, and it may ...

Unless it is a Holy Night, that is. Two Portland restaurants put together creative menus to celebrate the Feast of the Seven Fishes, a traditional Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve ...

I didn’t discover the beautiful Feast of the Seven Fishes until many years later, when I moved to the U.S. Although Mexico is a mostly Catholic country, we do not observe this tradition.

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A scientific expedition to Peru has yielded a treasure trove of 27 new species, including an amphibious mouse, a "blob-headed" fish, and other zoological oddities. Ronald Diaz/Conservation ...