Roasted Lamb Cutlets with Potatoes

Lamb is the classic Passover Seder main course eaten by many Roman Jews, my family included. It represents the Paschal sacrifice, or Korban Pesach, a ritual that came to an end with the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70CE. Many Italian and Sephardi Jews eat lamb on Passover’s first night, keeping alive a tradition that Jews took with them 2,000 years ago. Interestingly, Ashkenazi Jews do not eat lamb for the Seder precisely because it reminds them that the Temple