I planned to start this email with the "true" reason we eat fish on Good Friday.
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You know the one - that sometime in the annals of yesteryear, the Pope implemented a law that Catholics had to eat fish on Good Friday, in order to prop up the ailing Italian fishing industry. It's an alternate history that is a beloved tale of cynics everywhere.
But apparently, it's a myth!
The honest to goodness, real reason we eat fish on Good Friday is a genuinely religious one after all. It's truly because, since Jesus died on the Friday, Christians stopped eating the flesh of "warm-blooded" animals to fast, as a sign of respect for his sacrifice.
I don't know about you, but I find that kind of reassuring.
If you're into the tradition, there's a new place to eat seafood this Friday.
The former Fish & Chips restaurant at Seaport has been taken over by the team behind Cataract on Paterson, and is opening specially for Good Friday.
There are also vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free and gluten-free options - but their specialty is, obviously, seafood, and all of it from either Australia or New Zealand.
Yum.