Porchetta recipe – how to make Italian roast pork

Porchetta is the roast pork of choice in central Italy. It’s often sold by street vendors outside shopping plazas, at festivals and in marketplaces (one great porchetta stand that springs to mind is the one in Rome’s famed Campo de Fiori marketplace). In fact, it’s such an important part of local cuisine in the Lazio region that Porchetta di Ariccia has been awarded Protected Geographical Indication status by the European Union.

This means there are specific details in how…