matanza
Language: Spanish
Description: The day of the killing of a pig, often rounded off with the eating of a stew called a chanfaina containing the offal (US: organ meat) of the animal. In Sicily this refers to the ritual killing of tuna.
Pronounced: mah-TAHN-sah
Ethnicity: Spanish
Most frequent country: Spain
See places: Spanish food and cuisine
See foods and dishes: chanfaina
See: mattanza
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