{"id":273571,"date":"2019-04-19T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEINBhz4VcveOJhfGqz-qg7kqEwgEKgwIACoFCAowgXQw4Awwky8?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:39","slug":"how-ethiopians-celebrate-easter-with-an-epic-meat-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273571","title":{"rendered":"How Ethiopians celebrate Easter with an epic meat feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saveur\u2019s Jeff Koehler described how Ethiopian Orthodox families break the long Lenten fast with an <strong>Easter<\/strong> table of stewed lamb, chicken, kitfo, and piles of injera after 56 days of tsom discipline.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-291582\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/teff-injera.jpg?fit=780%2C585&ssl=1\" alt=\"How Ethiopians celebrate Easter with an epic meat feast\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an Addis Ababa home kitchen that also fed a restaurant, the feast smelled of coffee still hanging in the air and clay pots coming upstairs. Fasting cuisine of lentils, greens, and spices makes the meat return feel epic for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>Culture pieces like this belong in Mereja\u2019s mix. Foodways explain calendar, faith, and family labor better than another political wire stub.<\/p>\n<p>As lifestyle reference, the Easter meat feast remains a clear window into Orthodox Ethiopia\u2019s rhythm: restraint, then abundance, always on injera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveur.com\/meat-feast-ethiopian-easter\">Saveur<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Epic Meat Feast Is How Ethiopians Celebrate Easter&nbsp;&nbsp;Saveur DailyEaster in Ethiopia is a meat-filled feast of stewed lamb, chicken, raw spiced beef, and sourdough injera flatbread after 56 days of eating only vegetables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":291582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/teff-injera.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600859,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273571\/revisions\/600859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}