Description
Season 1: 2 x 60'
Shine TV for BBC1
Mary will share her own favourite Easter recipes, including hot cross buns, Simnel cake and roast lamb, and learn on this gastronomic adventure how every Christian community and culture, from Russians to Filipinos to Caribbeans to Italians and Poles, has its own way of commemorating and celebrating this most important festival through food, all religiously and culturally symbolic and distinct.
In episode one, Mary discovers the traditions followed by diverse British families and communities during Lent and Good Friday and the food that brings them together as each prepare for the great Easter celebration.
In the second part of this gastronomic adventure discovering how Britain eats its way through Easter, Mary explores the wonderful foods that bring each different community together on Easter Sunday, the most symbolic and meaningful feast in the Christian calendar.