Boiled Goat

The tradition goes like this: When shepherds would shave their livestock once a year—usually done in June before the extreme summer heat of July and August—they would invite the whole village to assist them. Shearing, clipping, and trimming a few hundred sheep or goats in one day on your own was next to impossible. So, for the villagers’ troubles, the shepherd would serve vrasto (boiled meat), offering up one of his animals for sacrifice, normally a goat. And of course, live music, a