Concierge: Recipes / Global
Season to taste
Keen to rethink the passé holiday roast or terminally dry turkey? Monocle’s recipe writer Aya Nishimura has some suggestions from an overlooked Italian tradition.
This year’s December/January food shoot aims to keep you sated from Yule to the new year and beyond, and takes its inspiration from the way in which recipes and traditions are refined and changed depending on what you’re celebrating and with whom.
It’s not without a little irony that we’ve looked to the Festa dei Sette Pesci (feast of the seven fishes), an authentically European-sounding name for a firmly Italian Christmas Eve tradition in which seven dishes containing seafood are combined to make a mighty meal. In fact, so little is it known in…
