PS If you’ve found this useful you might want to check out more of our DreamDiscoverItalia Italian 101 ideas such as How I love you, How to say hello or How to say please, thank you and you’re welcome all of which are easy to learn! I can’t promise that we’ll make you fluent in Italian overnight, but with the help our our Italian 101 posts you can learn a little and often and hopefully have a bit of fun doing it! So wherever you are and however you’re spending this weekend, may I take this opportunity to wish you a very happy Easter, or for the non-religious a happy spring weekend! Leave me a comment to let me know what you’re up to and any memories you have of spending Easter in Italy! Buona Pasqua tutti, Happy Easter everyone!! And finally, if you’re in Sicily you may well get a little lamb made out of marzipan. Another classic is the Colomba cake, a sweet, eggy bread similar to the Christmas Panettone, shaped like the dove of peace or if you happen to be down in Calabria, you might try una pastiera Napoletana, a very tasty grain pie made to ancient family recipes so each one is different. Sometimes the bread also includes Easter candles – La candela pasquale. One of the most evocative is the Easter bread, pane di pasqua, a rich bread shaped into a crown or cross with a coloured egg embedded in it. Meals are often accompanied to by carciofi fritti, fried artichokes or patate soffritti, fried potatoes.Īnd of course a meal wouldn’t be complete without dessert – at least not in our house! – so you may want to check out the options there. In Naples the meal might start with a minestra di Pasqua soup and be followed by roast or grilled spring lamb, agnellino al forno, roast kid goat, capretto al forno, or kid stewed with peas, eggs and cheese, capretto cacio e uova. Obviously you can’t turn up at a picnic empty handed but fortunately there are a few traditional Easter foods to pick from (apart from the obvious Easter eggs of course!!) Bakeries and paticerie around Italy are currently bursting with biscuits, the Easter Bunny, Il coniglietto pasquale, is making his final preparations and Italians are on the countdown to the end of their Lenten fasting.Īs in the UK Easter Sunday lunch is a chance to eat together. ![]() ![]() So if you’re coming to Italy for Easter you should expect the cities to be full of tourists, many of whom will be Italians taking the opportunity for a short vacation. Literally it means “Christmas with your relatives, Easter with whoever you want”, so you can pretty much do what you want, within reason of course, this is Italy! And so that’s exactly what Italians do, often having big picnics in the countryside, short breaks or meals out with friends especially on Pasquetta (little Easter) or Lunedì dell’Angelo, (Angel’s Monday), both meaning Easter Monday. “ Natale con i tuoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi!” pronounced Nata-lay con ee tw-oee, pas-kwa con key vw-oy-ee, is a phrase you hear a lot around Easter-time.
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