With Christmas just around the corner, it's natural that all of us are preparing our menus to celebrate this special occasion, particularly for Christmas Eve dinner. For those who have never heard of ...

Younger generations are discovering a culinary tradition rich with history. Here’s how they’re making the Seven Fishes their own (and how you can do the same). The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an ...

Our Christmas Eve feasts were usually a few fish shy of seven, but we always had plenty of them. Down in the basement, Papa fried lightly battered smelt — fish so tiny you can eat them bones and all.

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, ...

The red binder comes off the shelf each December, as Christmas Eve approaches. It was a final gift from my mom and her cousin Nancy, a treasure more valuable than anything in a jewelry box or a ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- In our latest edition of The Dish, we're talking about a tradition that's very popular in Italian American families: The Feast of the Seven Fishes. Dolce Italian in Center City ...

When Rosemary Quast (née Antonelle) got married and moved to Maryland in 2006, she brought a slice of Italian-American New York with her: the Christmas Eve tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes.