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  • I remember the Catalan crowd throwing all sorts of objects at him including a whiskey bottle, beer cans and a lighter, and I especially recall the image of the suckling pig's head - the 'cochinillo'.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • Barcelona for football, beaches, architecture; Madrid for bullfights, nightlife, cosmopolitanism and the cochinillo.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • It was a riff on Spanish cochinillo and Peking duck and was indeed amazing.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Ordering the kitchen's much-talked-about whole roasted suckling pig (cochinillo asado) is a bit like adopting a child, requiring a group of four, two days 'advance notice, a faxed form, and a $75 deposit.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Our favorite is the cochinillo lechon with a slice of lechon skin teasing you to eat it.

    Our Awesome Planet 2009

  • There's nothing quite like slow cooked meat, and the "17-hour" cochinillo, presumably, though never stated, cooked sous vide for that long, glazed in garlic and "oriental ketchup", was delicious.

    SaltShaker 2009

  • A swirl of sweet, cinnamon-spiked apple sauce trails cochinillo, soft, rosemary-scented roast suckling pig, pulled from the bone and shaped into a cylinder wrapped with crisp skin.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • Then, I think I'd lean toward the cochinillo (roasted suckling pig) or the arroz negro con calamares

    mango&lime 2009

  • Not that I don't enjoy an asado (roast) of suckling pig (cochinillo), lamb

    Catavino 2009

  • They also have an awesome Sunday Lunch Buffet (P535. 00++ adults / P405. 00++ kids) which includes roast beef, cochinillo, turkey, sushi, pasta, paella, desserts and a chocolate fountain.

    Wifely Steps 2008

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