If you have kids, or are a kid at heart, chances are you’ll be coloring Easter eggs this weekend. Between an egg coloring technique for awesome-looking eggs, and a tasty way consume your eggs after the Easter Bunny has left the building, we have you covered.
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Eggs are associated with spring and Easter because ancient cultures believed that eggs symbolized fertility, new life and birth. Christians, for example, viewed eggs as a symbol of Jesus’s resurrection from the dead (after his crucifixion). This belief was hatched sometime during early Christian times.
Consumption of eggs was typically forbidden during Lent because of their association with Jesus, but coloring eggs was cool. So, beginning in the thirteenth century, Christians would color eggs during Lent and once Lent ended on Easter morning, would eat the eggs.
This article appears in Apr 5-11, 2012.