Panna di Maiale Arrosto

Roast Belly of Pork

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Preparation info
  • 8

    people
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Alastair Little's Italian Kitchen

By Alastair Little

Published 1996

  • About

A rather off-putting title in English and if you make it with a normal piece of British pork, an off-putting dish. Pork husbandry in Britain is by and large a disgrace: the animals are reared squalidly and cruelly for a very short time, and they all too soon become carcasses that are the result of a conspiracy between bacon producers and food faddists, with lean and unpalatable meat. What pigs need to do is root around, find their own food (supplemented with swill) and end up with at least