Night-and-Day Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder

If you enjoy slow-cooking, you'll love this dish—a pork shoulder with big, bold, crunchy skin and an interior so meltingly tender in texture and so vibrant in taste that eating it will be a revelation. Slow, low-temperature cooking is the key.

I developed this recipe following some of the precepts of the late Adelle Davis, a food authority of the sixties—“setting the oven temperature at the temperature you want the meat when it is done.” Though much of her “nutritional” advice has s