Feasting with Fish

Christmas soup

For the holidays in southern Italy, they do the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Italians have large families and these feasts are huge.

I didn’t make it through my first Christmas dinner with friends here. In my own holiday dinners we do a Bollito Misto for Christmas lunch and the Cacciucco for Christmas Eve dinner.

One of the most famous dishes from Livorno i…