Few sights set a meat lover's heart racing like a roasted whole pig — the browned, crackling skin slick with forbidden fat, the fork-tender white meat releasing its clear juices. And there's the sheer ...

I was living la vida Gidget in a surfing town in Puerto Rico the first time I took part in a pig roast. There on the Rincon beach, a local dude dug a trough in the sand and cooked a pig in the covered ...

It’s a staple across many South Florida homes during the holidays and for Cubans, in particular, La Caja China is basically synonymous with Noche Buena (Christmas Eve). Pork roasts underneath layers ...

I stopped to admire what looked like a charcoal grill loaded with fajita meat and tortillas while checking out the tailgating action at Reliant a couple of weeks ago. But Mariano Moreno, the grill ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Bill Harden describes the results of roasting a whole pig as "kind of like hog Christmas." "Once the bones are all pulled out and it's all chopped up you get a little bit of ...

Whole-animal roasting is a tradition in Italy and elsewhere, but what makes pig preferable to, say, goat or lamb is the forgiving nature of its fatty, succulent flesh. Pigs don't require very close ...

The guest of honor at Blake and Donna Bender’s Fourth of July cookout tipped the scales at 191 pounds. A true life of the party, he showed up first and stuck around till the karaoke screen went black.

In Latin American cultures, Christmas Eve is Noche Buena and time for a big family celebration, often featuring a pig roast. There are lots of ways to cook a whole pig. But at Noche Buena parties in ...