Portugal - Bairrada => Big-Time Barbecue

This is from an article in 'The Wall Street Journal' about my homeland the Bairrada in Portugal and its culinary specialty the "Leitão à Bairrada"

"Most Portuguese towns are graced with monuments honoring local heroes. Mealhada is a bit different. There’s no stony faced navigator or dreamy bronze poet to greet visitors here. Instead, there’s a three-meter monolith topped with an oversized limestone piglet, its snout pointed skyward in an expression of civic pride in its inhabitants’ prowess in the arts of porcine cuisine."

Read the full article here.