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00:00Can I use this bowl?
00:17Some of the flour got in a couple of them and I just want to get a little bit of water.
00:18I'll use a lot.
00:19I will not use a lot.
00:20I barely put any in here.
00:21I meant to tell you there was more in the drawer.
00:34Oh, there was?
00:35Yeah.
00:36You didn't tell me.
00:37Yeah, so to you, what is Christmas Eve?
00:50Like our celebration and like our gathering.
00:57For us, it's a long term, we've been doing the Christmas celebration since I was a little
01:05child actually.
01:06Yeah, it's the Feast of the Seven Fishes and when his mom died because she did everything,
01:14we took it over because we wanted to continue that tradition, even though I'm Irish, but
01:20I felt it's important as far as family to continue that.
01:25One of the things that stands out the most in my mind, I was probably seven years old,
01:30maybe six, and my mom and my Aunt Celia were in the kitchen and we were on Grand Street
01:39and they were frying all the fish and I just watched everything.
01:44I didn't dare touch a thing.
01:47Well, I think for us now, it's a lot easier.
01:55We're better equipped to handle it than my parents were.
02:00They used to take two of my aunts and my mother and everybody to do it because it was just
02:06such a large celebration.
02:09Yeah, but they had to use frying pans on top of a stove.
02:12That's what I said.
02:13We're equipped with fryers.
02:14We have deep fryers now.
02:15We have deep fryers.
02:16What is your favorite part of Christmas Eve?
02:21Mine is the cooking.
02:23I really enjoy frying the fish because usually, for years, he was always helping me, now my
02:32son does it.
02:33You know, you're talking and you're just going over your life together and it's great.
02:39My favorite part is just when everybody gets here.
02:42I can still picture it in my mind with a big kitchen table and then sitting down and eating.
02:50But that was a long time ago.
02:52Now my memories are, as Papa said, when we all come together.
03:00We all get here and, I mean, everybody's hungry and you're talking to everybody and you're
03:06having a drink and that's the best part to me.
03:10There were years where we had 30 people out here, 25 to 30 people.
03:1525 to 30?
03:17Yeah.
03:18Oh my God.
03:19And you've got to have seven fish.
03:20I don't care what you do, but you better have seven fish.
03:24I mean, that's what my mother-in-law used to say to me.
03:26Seven types of fish.
03:27She didn't say that.
03:28Yeah.
03:29And then you have to eat seven whole fish.
03:30Back to, back to, back to, back to, back to.
03:31Yeah, as they say, watch out.
03:32The feast of the seven fishes are coming.
03:34The Italians are here.
03:35Yeah.
03:36Says the Irishman.
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