Arrosto di Maiale al Latte

Gina Albano grew up in Liguria but she only learned to cook when she married in 1928 and moved to her husband’s home in Bari. It was quite a transition. She wasn’t allowed to go shopping—only men did that—and she wasn’t familiar with much of the produce, but she had a good teacher in her husband, a real gourmet.

This delicious recipe, however, comes neither from her old home nor from the one which became hers on her marriage. A close friend from Naples gave it to he