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Fish Friday Around the World
By Shane Mitchell,
2024-03-28The Pope didn’t invent Fish Fridays. But the practice did grow out of a tradition of fasting during the Middle Ages, when the Christian calendar was crammed with holy days requiring keepers of the faith to avoid eating meat, or three square meals altogether. Since then, the Catholic Church–as well as adjacent Christian faiths–have certainly spread the gospel about eating fish at the end of the week, leading to a multitude of fish-and-chip shops in the U.K. and annual firehall dinners in the Midwest. And it’s not all fried. In Jamaica, the most popular Easter week dish is an escovitch of king fish or snapper. Cape Town favors pickled fish curry with a side of hot cross buns. The Spanish introduced dried and salted cod to Ecuador, where it was added to fanesca, an indigenous vegetable soup, which is now almost exclusively reserved for meals during Lenten week.
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