What is the traditional meat for Christmas dinner?

Table of Contents:

1. What is the traditional meat for Christmas dinner?
2. What is the best Christmas dinner?
3. What is a traditional Italian Christmas dinner?
4. What fish is eaten at Christmas?
5. What is the Italian tradition for Christmas Eve?
6. Why are there 7 fishes?
7. Where was Feast of the Seven Fishes filmed?
8. Is Christmas Eve a fast day in the Catholic Church?

What is the traditional meat for Christmas dinner?

turkey

What is the best Christmas dinner?

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What is a traditional Italian Christmas dinner?

In Italy, Christmas Eve dinner is traditionally lighter with no meat and a lot of seafood, while the Italian-American meal has evolved into much more of a feast. Bring on the sword fish, tuna, salmon, octopus salad, smelts, calamari, spaghetti with clam sauce and the famous Italian classic—salted cod, known as baccalà.

What fish is eaten at Christmas?

Yes, carp. For many foreigners, eating a freshwater fish as the main course for Christmas might be one of the most mind-boggling and head-scratching traditions of all (trust us, there are others); especially so in countries where meat, all kinds of it, is a central part of the daily diet all year long.

What is the Italian tradition for Christmas Eve?

In what is a very traditional tradition, the Italians don't eat meat on Christmas Eve, or la Vigilia. Instead they eat a variety of fish dishes - sometimes up to seven courses of seafood!

Why are there 7 fishes?

It's unclear what the “seven fishes” signify. The number seven, after all, appears hundreds of times in the Bible and is significant in the Roman Catholic Church: It may represent the seven sacraments. Or the seven virtues.

Where was Feast of the Seven Fishes filmed?

West Virginia

Is Christmas Eve a fast day in the Catholic Church?

Going back even further, for most of Christian history, Christmas Eve—the vigil of Christmas—was, like the vigils of every major feast, a day of fasting and abstinence, designed to heighten the joy of the feast to come. ... But such abstinence is voluntary under the current law of the Catholic Church regarding abstinence.