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Feast of the Seven Fish Christmas Eve Dinner This Christmas season celebrate the Italian-American tradition of the “Feast of the Seven Fish”, a delicious seven-course seafood only feast served on Christmas Eve. Despite its popularity with Americans, most Italians do not even know about the tradition. So how did this tradition start? The tradition of eating fish on Christmas Eve dates to the long-standing Catholic tradition of the “vigilia”, a day of fasting that ends with …