Talk:Porchetta

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I don't want to just edit this article without corroboration, but I think this stub is fine on reporting how porchetta is distributed but off the mark on describing the dish itself.

First, porchetta is usually not a whole roasted pig, but a boned, gutted pig (often a piglet or multiple piglets), stuffed, rolled with the skin and fat largely on the outside, spitted, and roasted that way. The innards are not traditionally part of porchetta, the head is rarely included, and most makers are very specific about the cuts and the layering that they want in the finished roast.

Also, porchetta is not traditionally spicy at all, and this comment is unique to the English page (the Italian page describes the flavors without giving any suggestion of piquancy). I haven't actually met spicy porchetta, although surely someone makes it -- and it sounds good! Porchetta is generally heavily salted, the outside includes crisped skin, and the meat is often flavorful from the presence of herbs in the stuffing, often including wild fennel.

Porchetta on a roll (in panini) is popular, but a lot of people eat it as a meat course as part of meal, just like salumi or roast chicken. This, too, is covered well on the Italian page but absent from the page in English.

The links to barbecue are apt, because porchetta has a lot in common with pulled pork, Cantonese barbecued pork, and other porcine outdoor dishes. Porchetta's standout quality, at least in Lazio, is the reliance on green herbs for much of the flavor.

151.54.240.195 (talk) 08:30, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

== Proposed Changes ==

Propose to remove the specific commercial references to particular establishments that might serve this dish. Wikipedia content should not be a platform for advertising (except perhaps for the occasional fund drive).

75.88.135.240 (talk) 04:06, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 04:06, 15 September 2015 (UTC). Substituted at 03:15, 30 April 2016 (UTC)