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 ...

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.

He said he felt a solace that immigrant children often crave in new surroundings when he saw his family starting the preparations for the Feast of the Seven Fishes. For him, it was always the ...

So, I’m personally not so strict about the tradition of this legendary feast, where seven fishes are served, or really, if there even needs to be a total of seven at all. I suspect that many ...

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 ...

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 ...

He said he felt a solace that immigrant children often crave in new surroundings when he saw his family starting the preparations for the Feast of the Seven Fishes. For him, it was always the ...

As a born-and-raised Seattleite from a lapsed Lutheran family, I’d never heard of the Feast of the Seven Fishes, a traditional Italian holiday meal. That is, until I got hooked on Hulu’s The Bear, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – The Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Christmas Eve tradition for Italian Americans. The creator of the “Dish It Girl” blog, Dina Deleasa-Gonsar, shared appetizers to serve ...

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.

So, I’m personally not so strict about the tradition of this legendary feast, where seven fishes are served, or really, if there even needs to be a total of seven at all. I suspect that many others ...