I have a dirty little secret: I never really liked Christmas ham! Which is why this “Seven Fishes” Christmas Eve seafood splurge at Quiessence sounds so delicious. (Here’s the menu.) It was inspired ...
This Christmas Eve, you may be hosting a cast of your many friends and family or keeping it intimate with your nearest and dearest. Regardless of the size of your holiday table, the night before ...
La Vigilia, known as the Feast of the Seven Fishes, has been celebrated by generations of Italian Americans on Christmas Eve. Once a day of fasting and abstinence on which no meat was eaten, they ate ...
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 be, ...
Brian Lavin, chef-owner of the coastal Mediterranean restaurant Costiera, has never had to work Christmas Eve — none of the kitchens he’s worked in were open. So his family was able to begin taking ...
I graduated to sitting at the grown-ups table, and when my grandparents got too old to host Christmas Eve dinner, my husband and I took over. After Papa died, Nana wrote out the stuffed calamari ...
If you're from an Italian-American family, then you're likely familiar with the Feast of the Seven Fishes, which is celebrated on Christmas Eve. And if you're a seafood lover, this is among your ...
Valley restaurants have a busy extended weekend coming up on Sunday, December 24, and Monday, December 25 – Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Establishments cooking for the holiday range from the ...