Cinghiale con ginepro

The glory of this recipe is that it is all just popped in the pan in its raw state and left to do its work in the oven.

The recipe came about like this. I was invited to Kent in September 2009 to shoot a quarry that has not been seen in the wilds of England for 350 years. Arriving in the wood, I was shown the broken fences, dug-up ground and well-used paths caused by these bristly beasts. This first (unsuccessful) day, I sat up an old painter-and-decorator’s scaffold, lashed to a tr