Whole Hog 2012
MENU FROM THE FARM
Tuesday, February 7, through Friday, February 10
This year we return to the essential idea of Oliveto’s Whole Hog dinners, honoring the winter season’s tradition of many farm families in Italy who fatten a treasured hog in preparation for the visit from the butcher, preparing it for use throughout the year. There is no animal more giving than the hog.
Smaller items, soup, salads . . .
Selection of fermented salumi
Selection of cured whole cuts: coppa, prociutto, pancetta, lomo, lonza
Frittuli–preserved Calabrian confit of skin and trim with Cannellini beans, frisée, and lemon
‘nduja di spilinga with wood-grilled crostino–spicy, fresh, spreadable Calabrian salume
Potted ciccioli–spread made from cracklings and rendered pork trim
Coppa di testa–head cheese
Fegatelli di maiale al finocchio–Tuscan-style grilled fennel-seed-crusted pork liver and crostini
Cotiche e fagioli–pork skin with Chestnut beans braised in tomatoes
Favata–soup of pork and dried white Fava beans
Garden lettuces vinaigrette
Chicories with pancetta, Parmesan cheese, and balsamic vinaigrette
Pastas
Penne alla norcina–penne pasta with Umbrian pork sausage, garlic, cream, and Pecorino cheese
Fusilli con soffritto maiale–Calabrian ragù of heart, liver, and kidney
Polenta e salciccia–Floriani Red Flint corn polenta with sliced salami cotto
Agnolotti dal plin–raviolini with ground pork filling
Pappardelle con maiale di latte–pappardelle pasta with milk-braised pork
Bucatini alla carbonara–pasta with egg yolks, guanciale, Pecorino, and black pepper
Sagne chine–Calabrian lasagne consisting of marble-sized meatballs and tomato
Grills, sautés, and rotisserie
Cassoeula–Lombardian cabbage and pork stew to celebrate the feast of St. Anthony
Zampone con lenticchie–cotechino-stuffed trotter with lentils
Polpette e polenta–meatballs with Floriani Red Flint corn polenta
Porchetta al rosmarino–spit-roasted pork middle seasoned with rosemary and fennel seed
Arrosto di maiale–spit-roasted pork leg served over roasted vegetables
Nodino alla Veneziana–salt-cured chops marinated with chili flake and coriander, pressed under a brick
Involtino of Swiss chard with saffron farotto, Black Trumpet mushrooms, and Parmesan cheese
Roast hen al mattone with preserved Meyer lemon, Calabrian chili, and Yellow Finn potatoes
Fish–AQ
Desserts
Rosemary-prosecco sorbetto with Cesare’s torta di nocciole
Blood orange ice cream-larded cialdone sandwiches
Strutto-basted pear and walnut streudel with vin santo ice cream
Kumquat gelée, grapefruit segments, grapefruit-Campari granita, and moscato zabaglione
Tuscan bread and lardo pudding with two-year-brandied Sonoma French prunes
Bittersweet chocolate cake
Sanguinaccio–first day (multiple regions) spiced blood and fruit sausage






