Brannan’s Bay Ridge: Italian Easter
Just about any holiday is an excuse to prepare and eat a huge feast in most Italian-American families like mine, starting with antipasto and ending about seven or eight hours later with fruits and nuts.
Most assume Christmas is the big one but what many don’t realize is that Easter Sunday is actually considered the holiest day in the Christian calendar which means it’s second only to Christmas Eve on the Italian food calendar.
Christmas Eve is really the alpha and omega when it comes to Italian food, family and faith. And grandma with her trusty Instamatic posing everyone like she’s Annie Leibovitz: “Go on the couch and sit with your cousin, hold the baby, smile! Stand next to your uncle. Now hop on one foot and bark like a dog.”