Basing one's diet exclusively on vegetables is a modern concept.
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Basing one's diet exclusively on vegetables is a modern concept.
How fish became a principal food eaten during the Lenten season is unclear. The season does coincide with the thawing of waterways and the maturity of a variety of seafood.
As part of our series on the culinary traditions of Lent we turn holy week in New Mexico in the 1940s.
