Ofellae Ostian style

In this recipe ofellae are highly-seasoned meat pieces taken from salted belly pork. A modern day equivalent might be ‘spare-ribs’ as the dish seems to have been quite common and may even have been a kind of fast food. The pork is scored, marinated and cooked as a whole joint, before chunks of meat are cut off and served with a sauce. Sometimes, as the next recipe but one suggests, the cooked meat is heated up and finished off in an oenogarum. This recipe, however, calls for t