[PW] Children's book, website or magazine article explaining "feast of the seven fishes"?

[Jeanne Schramm]

Here is something from the Project Wombat archives:
http://www.incanto.biz/letters_-_xmas.html

There are several other mentions of this topic in the archives.  The subject
line on this one is:  Traditional Italian Christmas Eve seven fish dinners.

And a children's book on the subject: The feast of the seven fishes, by
Tinnell
 http://tinyurl.com/33hler



On Nov 30, 2007 4:05 PM, Reference <ref_lib at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello Wombats -
>
> Here's a seasonal stumper.
>
> A patron is going to be talking to a class of
> elementary school kids about the Italian (or
> Italian-American) Christmas Eve custom of the
> Feast of the Seven Fishes, and she wants
> something - preferably a book - to use with her
> presentation.
>
> I looked in all our juvenile cultural, Christmas,
> Italian, and cooking books (and our adult books
> too) and can't find what she needs. A couple of
> cookbooks give a brief explanation and then go on
> to recipes. She's not interested in recipes; she
> is looking for description/history/explanation of
> the custom.
>
> All I've found so far are a few articles - one
> from Yankee magazine and a couple from the Food
> sections of newspapers. They're OK, and they do
> give the explanation she wants --  but the
> writing is not geared toward children, so they're
> not quite what she wants.
>
> "Seven Fishes" doesn't turn up anything in our
> catalog. I was hoping maybe someone knows of a
> book, website or magazine article that I can
> recommend to her.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Barb
>
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