At the table: Porchetta

Dec 02, 2024 389

BY: Joanna Simon

Porchetta is one of an ever-increasing number of regional dishes that has gone, if not quite global, then certainly globe-trotting, a phenomenon to which Italian cuisine seems particularly inclined.

The evidence points to porchetta having originated in the town of Ariccia in Lazio, although there are inevitably counterclaimants—a notable one from Norcia in Umbria. From Ariccia, southeast of Rome, it spread not only to other parts of Italy, including the Veneto (porchetta Trevigiana), Umbria, Abruzzo, Le Marche, and southern Tuscany, but also to the US, taken there by Italian immigrants in the early 20th century.  

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SOURCE: https://worldoffinewine.com

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