If you love Italian sagre and fairs, then you must have tried panino con la porchetta at least once. Indeed, the slowly-roasted, then-sliced delicacy is a staple of Italy’s most traditional street gatherings, so much so it has become almost synonymous with them.

And if it’s true that porchetta found its contemporary fame thanks to its connections with popular feasts, we shouldn’t forget its history, or better, the history of roasted piglet, is as long as that of life around the Mediterranean.