{"id":2877,"date":"2022-04-12T07:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediterraneandietunesco.org\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2022-04-12T07:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T05:47:55","slug":"spring-easter-traditions-across-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediterraneandietunesco.org\/el\/spring-easter-traditions-across-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring &#038; Easter Traditions Across The Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2877\" class=\"elementor elementor-2877\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4d27e193 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4d27e193\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4983e426\" data-id=\"4983e426\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad7906f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad7906f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beginning of spring is also a time of Easter \u2013 the holiest holiday for all Christians. Many popular customs and traditions still bear the mark of pre-Christian symbolism of springtime as a beginning of the new agricultural year. The opulence and fortune we wish for is mirrored in our festive tables and traditions we share throughout the whole Mediterranean basin. Sometimes the traditions are very different while also quite similar in their displays of spring richness and festive atmosphere. Games with colored eggs are just one of them.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff455fc elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ff455fc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Festive Table In Greek Orthodox Easter Tradition<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-566955d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"566955d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among many traditions related to Easter there is the much loved game the \u2018tsougrisma\u2019 which begins when people break each other\u2019s red eggs by hitting them against one another. The person with the strongest egg is said to have good luck for the whole year. The traditional saying is \u201cYou close your mouth with an egg when lent starts and open it with an egg when it finishes.\u201d The first meal after Lent is usually the traditional Easter soup (mayiritsa), eaten after church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holy Easter is usually celebrated in the countryside because nature is in full bloom and \u2018spring is sweet\u2019. Red Easter eggs, spit-roasted or oven-cooked goat or lamb, oven-cooked potatoes, stuffed vine leaves, cheese pies, spinach pies, feta cheese, as well as other Greek products and Greek Easter treats, like \u2018kokoretsi\u2019 (a dish consisting of lamb or goat intestines wrapped around seasoned offal, including sweetbreads, hearts, lungs, or kidneys, and typically grilled), are definitely on the menu.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roasting the lamb in religious symbolism goes back to the Old Testament when God asked Abraham to sacrifice his son and Abraham humbly obeyed and began preparing for the sacrifice. When Isaac saw what his father was doing, he asked, \u201cThe fire and wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?\u201d Although Abraham acted with a heavy heart, still he could not disobey God\u2019s order. When God saw Abraham\u2019s faith, He ordered him to stop and sacrifice a nearby ram instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On that special day, brothers and sisters, cousins, parents, and grandparents \u2013 the whole kinfolk \u2013 gather together. Traditional Greek folk music can be heard everywhere and people indulge in lots of food while drinking and dancing all day long. It\u2019s the perfect chance for family members to reunite!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/mediterraneandietunesco.org\/el\/greek-orthodox-easter-religious-traditions-customs-and-food-habits\/\">Greek Orthodox Easter traditions here.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa039ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"aa039ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Spring Rituals On Easter Tables Of The Croatian Coast<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f326296 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f326296\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easter traditions on the Croatian coast and islands are part of the rich Mediterranean heritage. As it is the time of the year when we welcome springtime, warm weather and the start of the new agricultural cycle, everything served on our tables should mirror abundance and fertility. The roots of many traditions still alive today are found in pre-Christian times and spring rituals for prosperity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easter is the only time of the year where breakfast is the most important meal, with cooked ham, cheese, colored eggs, and special types of bread. Convivial tables for lunch are served with lamb meat and young green vegetables such as spring onions and radishes. But the centerpiece of the Easter table on the eastern Adriatic is a special type of sweet, spiced bread called differently throughout the region \u2013 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pinca,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pinica, maslenica, sirnica, poga\u010da&#8230;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0It is a bread whose taste resembles cake because it is made from rich dough with eggs, milk, and butter, spiced up with orange and lemon zest, and sometimes aromatized with rose water or\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">maraschino\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(brandy made from a special sort of sour cherries\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mara\u0161ka<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Before baking, the round loaf is cut with scissors in the form of a cross and coated with egg yolks and chunks of sugar cubes. The richness of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pinca<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, forbidden during Lent, is its golden yellow color that reflects sunny days yet to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In different parts of eastern Adriatic Easter bread come in various forms, sometimes in the shape of a dove or three loaf braid decorated with an egg on one end. It wasn\u2019t unusual for these pastries to be gifts for children, in the shape of braids or babies for girls and round buns, little horses or bows and arrows for boys. On the island of Bra\u010d girls used to give similar pastries called\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">garitula<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, decorated with whole eggs, to young men they liked. The sweetness and scent of this marvelous type of bread mark the Easter holidays more than anything else so why shouldn\u2019t you <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mediterraneandietunesco.org\/el\/sirnica\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">try to make it yourself<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-86e003e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"86e003e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">It\u2019s Easter Time!: Religious, Folkloristic, And Tasteful Traditions On Cilento\u2019s Tables <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9dd2f92 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9dd2f92\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Easter tradition is one of the oldest. Rich in symbolism and expectation, it is also expressed in culinary culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Easter tradition contains evocative symbols with strong cultural, religious, and social value in the Cilento region. Lamb, wheat, rice, milk, and eggs are just a few of the elements that, reinvented by the population, determined the transition from beliefs and the spiritual world to a materiality in the shape of food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the churches of Cilento, the visit to the &#8216;sepulchers&#8217; is traditional, reached by the &#8216;congregations&#8217; with long chants and prayers; to prepare and decorate them, there is a widespread custom of using ears of corn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holy week opens with <\/span><b>Palm Sunday<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is the day on which <\/span><b><i>parmarieddi<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are brought to the tables: a special type of pasta whose shape and name have a triple meaning: the palm, symbol of peace; the palm of the hand shaping the dough, symbol of work; the palm as a unit of measurement, symbol of wheat and rebirth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On <\/span><b>Good Friday<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the bells do not ring as a sign of mourning, which is why it is customary to ring the &#8216;taroccole&#8217;, traditional folk instruments made entirely of wood, through the streets of the villages. This day, which marks the death of Christ, is deeply connected with ancient customs, still in use today, such as preparing <\/span><b><i>pizza cu l&#8217;erv<\/i><\/b><b>a. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The simple combination of water, flour and lard comprise the most basic recipe for the dough. The filling is made from wild herbs, typical of Cilento and the Mediterranean Diet, such as borage and chicory. The task was, and remains, entrusted to the elders, the greatest connoisseurs of this endemic wealth. The more modern version uses garden vegetables: mainly chard and escarole. To these are added pitted black olives and salted anchovies. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b><i>pizza chiena<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, typical of <\/span><b>Easter Sunday<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is perhaps the most elaborate and rich preparation. The filling has several variations: fresh and mature buffalo cheese from Campania and cold cuts such as bacon and sausage are mixed in an egg mixture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the various symbols of Cilento tradition is the egg, which represents the meaning of life, is recalled both in the form of the pizza chiene con il riso (a pizza made with rice) and in the past in the viccillu cu l&#8217;uovo (later replaced by the Easter egg): &#8216;Bread dough plaited with an egg in the middle, representing the unborn child, was given to a loved one on Holy Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-104d6f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"104d6f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Food traditions and regularly occurring festivities \u2013 Portugal\/Tavira<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b6bb6bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b6bb6bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The connection between food and festivities is clear to see in the social history of humankind.\u00a0 Festivities are an important feature of Mediterranean cultures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every season of the year has its own specific agricultural tasks and seasonal foods. This is why there are so many regularly occurring festivities and culinary events, which provide the opportunity to sample fresh seasonal products and dishes prepared especially for the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a cultural phenomenon, the festivities correspond to special occasions when tools are downed and celebrations, rituals, artistic performances and games take their place. Food plays a very important role in such events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portuguese Easter traditions commonly saw the parish priest paying a visit to his parishioners\u2019 homes, where he would be greeted with the \u201cFather\u2019s Easter cake,\u201d as well as other types of food. In Portugal, the traditional Easter cake, called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">folar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a dry cake made with flour, eggs, milk, sugar and yeast, and often flavored with spices. There is a huge variety of different types of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">folar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> up and down the country and it is most commonly eaten on Easter Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Tavira, the celebrations for Lent include various social and customary practices, highlights being the commemorative religious processions on Good Friday and Palm Sunday. In Portugal, these religious acts became established in the 15th and 16th centuries and are now an integral part of the traditional Holy Week celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0679803 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"0679803\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning of spring is also a time of Easter \u2013 the holiest holiday for all Christians. Many popular customs and traditions still bear the mark of pre-Christian symbolism of springtime as a beginning of the new agricultural year. 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