"Christmas with the yours, Easter what you want." In this proverb are enclosed the two most important Italian holidays and even the philosophy with which the Italians live. Christmas is past, our family Easter, on the contrary, always falls in early spring and makes you want to go out and travel. In Italy the Passover rite itself begins on Good Friday (Friday before Easter, which falls on Sunday), the day when we remember the Last Supper and death on the cross of Jesus Christ. On this occasion, we can watch processions through the streets of the cities they represent, through 14 stations or stops, the Via Crucis (= the way of the cross), that is the path of Christ on the hill of Calvary. After the Holy Saturday, a day of waiting, the joy of Easter breaks out on Easter Sunday, when we celebrate the Resurrection. The festival continues on Monday, the so-called Easter: This occasion is a tradition to do a little trip to the country, perhaps with a picnic.
As has happened for Christmas, for Easter gluttony and consumerism have taken over on religious grounds, and then we look at culinary traditions of our country. The festival of Easter comes from the gastronomic point of view, simple and frugal as a party, whose key elements have always been the lamb and eggs. The gastronomic tradition
We are specialists in the dessert next to typical regional cakes (presnitz in Trieste, Fugazza in the Veneto, the salami of the Pope in Piedmont, crushed Easter in Tuscany, Naples and lamb pastiera sugar in Sicily), can not miss the chocolate egg and the Dove.
The chocolate egg is the dream and the surprise of all children, there is something for every taste and every budget: milk chocolate, dark chocolate with hazelnuts, big, small, decorated ... and all hide a small gift! The Dove, however, is a cake in the shape of this bird (symbol of peace): The texture is similar to that of Christmas Panettone and is covered with icing, almonds and grains of sugar. For the sweet tooth there are also special doves stuffed with cream and covered with chocolate.
Well, it's a shame that Easter is only once a year, no? ! Learn Italian In
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