Lechón: Pigging out in the Philippines

Roasted over charcoal or in an oven, this succulent pig dish was handed down from the area’s Spanish heritage and improved with Filipino ingenuity and love for the dish. Lechón comes from the word leche, Spanish for milk. It indicates the age range of the suckling pig used to prepare the delicacy. The piglet is still young enough to feed on its mother’s milk when it is slaughtered at between 2 and 6 weeks of age.