1) Practicing Giorno di Magro: Abstaining from meat on Christmas Eve. -Pesce or fish is the main star on the Italian dinner table on Christmas Eve. The types of fish and the cooking preference can ...

The Italian American Christmas Eve tradition is believed to have originated ... In southern Italy, that meant an elaborate fish dinner, as National Geographic noted. As these immigrants ...

Dozens of Sclafani's longtime friends and family jumped in to help on Christmas Eve, which also marks the Italian-American tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Families abstain from eating ...

This is just a glimpse into the variety of dishes southern Italian families will spend hours preparing ahead of Christmas Eve dinner. Each family has its own fish dishes and ways of cooking them ...

The origin of this Italian tradition is shrouded in mystery. Why seven fishes on Christmas Eve? Some say there’s a fish for each sacrament of the Catholic Church. Others tie it to the seven days ...

For the next week, Americans of southern Italian descent will flock to fish and epicurean markets across the country to purchase a wide variety of seafood to prepare for the longstanding southern ...