Lamb Season

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Although chocolate eggs and Hot Cross buns take centre stage at Easter, millions of people also sit down to share a joint of lamb to celebrate. In this episode, Sheila Dillon finds out more about the tradition for eating lamb at Easter with Welsh food writer Carwyn Graves, and hears how despite its prominence on Easter tables, the timing of lamb production doesn't always fit with when the festival falls on the calendar. So should we be considering eating other types of sheep meat at this time of year? Sheila speaks to sheep farmer Steve Lewis from Pembrokeshire Lamb whose lambs are being born at this time of year, and is currently selling customers last season lamb and hogget. She also visits Spanish restaurant, Asador 44 in Cardiff to learn from chef Owen Morgan how to prepare older cuts of sheep meat, including 8 year old mutton from The Cornwall Project.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Natalie Donovan

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0:38.0	Hello, I'm Sheila Dylan.
0:40.0	Welcome to this edition of the Food program on Lamb and Hoggett and Mutton.
0:46.4	What are they?
0:47.5	And why the Easter tradition of eating Lamb? eating lamb.
1:01.0	Cardiff in spring, trees, birds, and not far away. It's Easter Sunday and although chocolate eggs and hot cross buns
1:06.8	take centre stage this weekend today millions of us will gather around the table
1:12.3	with friends and family to share a joint of Lamb.
1:16.0	But why Lamb on this day? Christians call Jesus the Lamb of God.
1:21.0	Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, said John the Baptist,
1:27.0	according to the New Testament.
1:29.2	But does that mean we should actually eat Lamb on the day of his resurrection.
1:34.4	In spite of my Roman Catholic upbringing,
1:36.4	it's a tradition I've never really understood.
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