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Feast of the Seven Fishes

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A few of the words

BACCALA
Salt-dried cod. It has to soak for a day or two, with the water changed, before it's fit to cook, which is why the fish shopping starts early.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SCUNGILLI
The Neapolitan word for conch, usually sliced thin and served in a cold salad with lemon and oil or in a spicy red sauce.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
VIGIL
The meal marks the vigil, the night of waiting before Christmas Day, when Catholics traditionally abstained from meat.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SMELTS
Small silvery fish, floured and fried whole. You eat them head and all, and a platter disappears faster than anything else on the table.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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A feast of the seven fishes word search, free and printable, with fried smelts, salt cod and a long table waiting on Christmas Eve.

About Feast of the Seven Fishes

Christmas Eve in many Italian-American homes means no meat, and a kitchen that smells of hot oil, garlic and lemon from the middle of the afternoon. The cooking goes on for hours: baccala soaking in changes of water for days, a pot of linguine with clams, a platter of fried smelts passed hand to hand. Somebody always burns a finger, and somebody always says there should be an eighth fish.

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