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," ...

Generally, smelt are cooked with the backbone and ribs intact. When smelt are fried, the bones become crisp and brittle — they are eaten along with the fish. When baked or broiled, the bones don't ...

I recently visited LaMoia on Pocasset Avenue in Providence for the second time. The Portuguese-style smelts are wonderful. Is there any way they would share the recipe? I thought they'd be a different ...