Oily fish are fish species with oil in soft tissues and in the coelomic cavity around the gut. Their fillets may contain up to 30% oil, although this figure varies both within and between species.

The Feast of the Seven Fishes tradition is also tied to the Catholic Church’s practice of not eating meat during certain times of the year — for example, on Fridays during Lent and on the eve ...

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 ...

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.