Traditions Starring Seafood, Poultry and Goat Meat

Chicken, goat meat and seafood are a big part of most of our traditions. Whether as foods that are typically eaten during the festive season or for their symbolic meaning, their cultural significance is undeniable. Weddings, feasts, celebrations, religious occasions, often feature fish and poultry. Here are some such traditions from across the globe that are incomplete without a fish, chicken or mutton offering: 1. Fish during Friday fast As a religious custom, various Christian denominations fast on Friday. This fast consists of a diet that includes fish. Christians abstain…

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Top 10 Fishing Stories

Fishing is not just a sport that thrills but also one of those activities that provide a wide-range oflife experiences. Hence, it is no wonder that it appears as the subject, theme and/or the background of so many literary works. Be it fiction, non-fiction, folktales, short stories, novellas, or verse, writers use different formats to tell fishing stories that touch us. Here are tensuch fishing books that you should give a read: 1) The Fisherman and His Wife – Collected by the Brothers Grimm; and The Tale of the Fisherman…

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The New Exotics

The selection at Fishvish is at its all-time best: There’s the excellent seafood, chicken and mutton range, and the so-good-and-just-gets-better homestyle Heat & Eat line-up. The people at Fishvish have taken upon themselves to bring to local patrons the great variety of quality seafood from far and wide, and the new addition to the seafood selection says it all. You now have easy access to exotic fish varieties like the Pacific Cod, Bengali demi-deity Hilsa, Atlantic Pollock, Hake, Yellowfin Sole and Rock Lobster Which places you far ahead of most restaurants in…

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Top 9 Mythical Sea Beings

Illustration of The Little Mermaid by E. S. Hardy (circa 1890) The vastness of the ocean, the changeable nature of water, the fury of a sea-storm, the abundance of life found in the ocean and the variety of species that thrive in deep waters has made mankind not only marvel at everything that the sea offers, symbolises and is capable of but it has also provided a fertile ground for the creation of myths and legends. Mermen, shapeshifters, water demons, gods, amphibious humans, hybrid creatures, and zoomorphic beings, the sea…

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An Ode To Seafood, Poultry And Mutton

Writers find inspiration everywhere and this includes food so it is no wonder that fish, crustaceans, chicken and goat meat have influenced poetry. In addition to poets singing the praises of seafood and poultry in their verse, they also use them as poetic devices to express their feelings and ideas in a creative way. Our long association with fish and meat cause our beloved rhyme-makers to employ them as a metaphor, allusion, symbol, imagery, simile and other such literary techniques.  Here are some poems that feature chicken, mutton and seafood.…

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