Traditional Easter Foods and the Innovative Substitutes
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Easter Sunday marks the culmination of the Holy Week, the last week of lent, the 40-day period that is most important for Christians. Every food item consumed on this day is symbolic of events that took place and shaped this day.
Easter eggs have many connotations in the Christian world, but the most drool-worthy is one that is related to the Easter Holiday, the day that is celebrated as the rebirth of Jesus Christ. The egg symbolizes the rebirth or resurrection of Jesus. It also means the return of fertility the springtime brings. What precedes the Easter Egg though is the Hare that lays these eggs; the little creature with the curiously long ears comes around during the time of Easter and lays its colorful eggs in the nest.
What originally used to be nests are now replaced by creatively designed baskets that contain brightly colored and innovatively handcrafted Easter eggs. Also, hard-boiled eggs are now replaced with Chocolate Eggs; with innovation catching up with the food industry, hard-shelled eggs made back in the day are now ditched for hollow eggs that we are all so fond of today.
The Confectionery Eggs are not the only form of eggs consumed on this day after the 40 days void of eggs, the other kind of eggs that are devoured being the deviled eggs. They get their name from being savories and do not have any negative undertones, rest assured! In order to avoid any unfavorable situations their dedicated name may bring up, they have a bunch of back up names such as salad eggs, mimosa eggs, stuffed eggs or dressed eggs. Just like we have the option of choosing from a bunch of given names for this appetizer, there are also a number of ingredients we can play around with while preparing this delicacy.
Having origins in Rome which can be traced as far back as 61 A.D., these little oval savories have gone through a lot of transformation from the time they were introduced to our grumbling tummies. From fig peckers bathed with egg yolk beaten with pepper stuffed inside a peahen egg to beating egg yolk with cilantro, OJ, pepper, coriander and murri and stuffing this mixture into egg whites and reinforcing them with a little stick to finally settling with the now very famous mayonnaise infused recipe, this is one dish that has seen a lot of modification.
Lamb is another one of those Easter Dishes that have a religious bearing, one is the metaphorical sacrificial Lamb of God and the other a superstition one, it was believed that the devil could take the shape of any animal except the lamb because of its religious significance and therefore in those days people believed that coming across a lamb was lucky. Eating of the lamb goes far back to the days of Pesach, when Israelites were ordered by God to sacrifice a lamb and paint the doors of their homes with its blood so the Angel of Death would pass over their homes and spare their first-born child, which was carried out as retribution for not freeing the chosen ones. God was believed to have instructed the people to then roast the lamb and eat the meat with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, introducing the traditional form of lamb which is now popularly consumed in the form of lamb chops or kabobs.
Making note of the trends across the globe, Food Manufacturing Companies around the world are, in efforts to stay updated on their marketing strategies, introducing products that are associated with the global and regional festivals and celebrations, such as Easter for example, Kinder Joy, a candy shaped like an egg and made out of cocoa and milk cream, that splits into two halves, one half containing the edible part and the other half containing a toy, is an ingenious creation made by the Italian Confectionery Company Ferraro. Many other companies are getting on this bandwagon and coming up with their own innovative ideas to celebrate all the festivals around the world.
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