“I like to think that this project helps people get excited about these very old cultural and culinary traditions,” says Hollen Barmer, a Tennessee transplant who came to Pittsburgh two decades ago and started the map in 2012 for her fish-fry-loving self. In the process, the new Pittsburgh is helping point the way to the old. The fish fry, a long-established Friday staple during Lent, is roaring back from COVID with an assist from something decidedly newfangled: an interactive map built by local volunteer coders that points the way to scores of churches, fire halls and other places that offer battered and breaded seafood for the taking. And some arrive in a way that unites two rich seams of western Pennsylvania culture - tradition and innovation. But these days, newcomers figure in the mix, too. Aidan Catholic Parish north of Pittsburgh - and greet each other as longtime friends. Many patrons are members of the flock - St. Their objective: to occupy tables on the basketball court and, for the parish’s first time since the pandemic descended in 2020, sit down for an old-fashioned Lenten fish fry. (AP) - By the time the doors open at 4:30 p.m., a boisterous line of 50 hungry people is looping around the gymnasium foyer at Blessed Francis Seelos Academy.
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