Porchetta Umbra
Umbrian porchetta with wild fennel flowers (finocchietto selvatico); aromatic and distinctive.
Umbrian porchetta with wild fennel flowers (finocchietto selvatico); aromatic and distinctive.
Tuscan-style porchetta with heavier fennel seed and black pepper; slightly different herb balance.
Porchetta from Ariccia, the most famous porchetta town; IGP protected, known for extra-herbed interior.
Umbrian porchetta (wild fennel, garlic, pepper) on bread; aromatic.
The Castelli Romani reading of roast pork: a boned pig packed with garlic, black pepper, and rosemary, roasted to shattering crackling. Its filling is fixed by EU law, on bread chosen to say nothing.
A carver chops crackling back into a slab of fennel-roasted pig and presses it into a plain roll: the panino al porchetta, where the filling is a full day's work and the bread is a deliberate blank.