Feast of the Seven Fishes Lives on in Pittsburgh, Less So in Italy
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SEAFOODNEWS.COM] December 19, 2017
Rossilynne Culgan, the food and culture editor of the Incline, a Pittsburgh blog and news service, has an interesting take on the Feast of the Seven Fishes, which Wholey Seafood is promoting this week in Pittsburgh.
“The history of seven fishes in the U.S. is really interesting, because it’s something that’s brought over by Italian immigrant families. If you were to go to Italy today, you’d notice that contemporary Italians haven’t kept up with the traditions,” said Melissa E. Marinaro, director of the Italian American Program at Heinz History Center.
When Italian immigrants left home, they brought traditions popular in that particular moment and passed them down without knowing the styles and customs had changed in Italy.
“Many of the things we do are what are ancestors were doing in the late 19th and early 20th century....
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