In France, it is popular to give the Easter eggs as gifts, just as Louis XIV had given golden eggs to his flatterers. In Italy, families eat salami, eggs and cheesecake for breakfast and then picnic with lamb, broad beans and sheep’s milk cheese.
The Irish celebrate Easter with a dawn dance, a herring funeral and a cake dance, which dates to pre-Christian times. In Germany, “Oschter Haws” (the Easter bunny) brings colored eggs for the children and in Russia, they paint their own intricate designs on a hollowed-out Faberg
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