Irene Brown of Zionsville sent in a Snow Pudding recipe for Jane Benning of Allentown. The recipe came from Irene’s mother, Clara Hirschman. “She made this at least once a winter and it is easy to ...

What better timing to share a smelt recipe with our readers than the week before Christmas Eve. That's what LaMoia Restaurant and Tapas Bar on Pocasset Avenue in Providence did 12 years ago. The ...

Still putting together your Feast of the Seven Fishes, La Vigilia? Back in the Providence Journal archives from 2004, is this recipe for smelts - baked, not fried. It came from "Festa Italiana," ...

For 61 years the Darwin Rod and Gun Club has continued a tradition of serving up baskets of a small species of fish with a unique taste at its annual fish fry. As the fish fry season gears up during ...

Needing to pick up a few items for dinner, I headed for the big supermarket, skipping the fresh fish market. I only buy fresh fish where the counter people let me smell it before I buy. Fresh fish ...

Dad and his buddies would dip what I considered to be hundreds of pounds of smelt. Some would be pan-fried with a cornmeal or flour coating, some would be smoked using Uncle Butch's "secret" recipe, ...

Ask folks to tell you what smelt tastes like, and you find out real quick it’s a tougher question than you think. Debbie Calcagni, the self-described “lunch lady” who serves up plate after plate of it ...