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 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 tradition is ...

Do you serve baccala? Baccala salad, a Carino family staple during Christmas Eve's Feast of the Seven Fishes. Baccala is salted, dried cod, and in this full-blooded Italian’s estimation ...

Why seven fishes on Christmas Eve? Some say there’s a fish for ... titled “La Vigilia.” That’s the Italian phrase for Feast of the Seven Fishes. What's Going There?Rosie's Pizza ready ...

I can remember the wave of comfort surrounding me, knowing Christmas Eve in America was going to be no ... Like her immigrant Italian grandparents, Salena Zito started bringing her grandchildren to ...

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, depending on your view of eel ...

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 ...

In Mexico City, where I grew up, Christmas Eve is the main meal of the season. Roast pork in adobo, salt cod a la vizcaina and mole with romeritos and dried shrimp patties are traditional dishes ...