Showing posts with label porchetta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label porchetta. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2011

Heaven is a Place on Earth

This past weekend, I spent a delicious two days in San Francisco. I discovered that in addition to a farmer's market at the ferry building, there are food stands set up all long the pier. Always one for a smorgasbord of tastings, I couldn't wait to try them all. Unfortunately, my stomach is an eighth of the size of my appetite so I was only able to try a couple. First stop was at Roli Roti, where there was a crazy line. They offer rotisserie chickens but I'm pretty sure everyone was waiting for the ridiculous looking porchetta. Porchetta, pronounced por-ketta, is a fatty, boneless pork roast generally layered with herbs and other aromatics and traditionally roasted over wood.

you could hear the crunch of the crackling as they cut into it

They serve the sandwich with a crunchy Acme ciabatta roll, some onion marmalade and greens. It's phenomenal. In my opinion, it surpasses Porchetta's (NYC) pork sandwich by miles.