Each Friday during Lent in kitchens all over the state, fish filets will be hitting the fryer to be served to Lent observers and anyone else with a hankering for fish fry.
The tradition has roots in the Catholic practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays, especially in the 40 days before Easter, but it has expanded more widely.
At Church of St. Albert the Great in Minneapolis, Father Joe Gillespie presides over one of the largest fish fry dinners in the region. He and Mpls.St.Paul Magazine food and dining editor Stephanie March, who writes a Twin Cities fish fry guide every year, joined Minnesota Now to talk about the tradition…