
Easter Sunday is just around the corner, meaning it's time to prep your holiday menus and stockpile an assortment of spring-themed ingredients. At the crux of the annual festivity, which commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is religiously symbolic foods. A typical Easter feast includes lamb, which symbolizes Jesus' self-sacrifice as the "Lamb of God" in Christianity and the spring equinox in Paganism; and ham, which symbolizes luck. There's also eggs, which symbolize renewal and rebirth; and bread, which symbolizes fertility.