Merry Christmas, everyone! For Christmas Eve dinner in my family, we celebrate with a Feast of Seven Fishes, as the Italians of Southern Italy. This year, we had squid, crab, lobster, scallops, shrimp, mussels, and clams. We steam the clams …

In the south of Italy, families celebrate the Eve of Christmas with the Feast of the Seven Fishes. For Italian Americans, this feast is large, and usually consists of seven or more fishes. In our family, this is a chance …