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Fish Fry Day Falls on Feb 16th Erry Year! ... (yup, it's linked to Lent)...

fried whiting & sides at Black Nile in Brooklyn

It’s Fish Fry Friday! Aka #fishFRYDay [⬅️link to mini vid] …a date which is linked to #Lent

Enjoy these featured FRIED FISH dishes (i most certainly did! before snapping the pics…) from throughout the continental US at places including:
@blvdbistro up in Harlem
@blacknile_nyc / @blacknile.co in Brooklyn
@southjazzkitchen in Philadelphia
@haroldschickencorp in #Chicago
+ My BROOKLYN Kitchen! Seen in the brief video clip at the end of the IG Post I made for this

As far as I can tell none of the mainstream food holiday calendars out there offer substantive insight into African American (or Indigenous) foodways or culinary cultures — even on days like this where we (well, our ancestors ) basically made FISH FRIES a thing in America! Throughout the Americas in fact, especially #cornmeal encrusted fried fish throughout the #AmericanSouth and all along the #Easternseaboard … as well as throughout the #Caribbean islands… Communal cooking of fish is also a very important #NativeAmerican #culinary #tradition...

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