Feast of the seven fishes side dishes

Chef, best-selling cookbook author, and Emmy Award-winning TV show host Giada De Laurentiis was born in Rome and learned the secrets to Italian cooking

Also known as The Vigil, the Feast of the Seven Fishes is a Southern Italian custom in which a meal of at least seven different kinds of seafood is served before midnight on Christmas Eve. Here, some traditional, and not so traditional, ideas for your own feast.

The feast of the 7 fishes is a tradition of celebrating Christmas Eve the Italian way. So here are 21 recipe ideas for a 3 meal course plus dessert.

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