THE NIGHT
Aquatic Celebrating the Feast of the Seven Fishes along the Wasatch By Darby Doyle 14 Devour Utah • November/December 2015
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mericans love adapting other countries’ second-tier commemorative days and turning them into historically suspect cultural caricatures. Take Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick’s Day, holidays rather perfunctorily recognized in their respective home countries of Mexico and Ireland, but in the U.S. of A., they’ve been turned into day-long festivities of copious adultbeverage consumption. A similar bit of cultural exaggeration seems expected and even encouraged during the Italian-American Christmas Eve meal, “The Feast of the Seven Fishes,” but the hours-long