Roasted Suckling Pig and Potatoes

In literature, cochinillo asado, roast suckling pig, first appeared in Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Our hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza, pass by an alfresco wedding where a dozen piglets are being prepared over an open fire, a practice deeply associated with the Castilian plateau since Roman times. In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway uses the rustic dish cooked in the three-hundred-year-old fire at So