I’ve been a fan of pepper bacon from Newman Farm for sometime, but I moved on to pork shanks this weekend at the urging of Rita Newman. “Make osso buco,” she said, handing me a copy of her simple, one-paragraph recipe. “It’s my favorite.”
Rita and her husband, Mark, raise heritage Berkshire pork at their picturesque farm in Myrtle, Missouri, so they know a thing or two about pork. But since I over-complicate everything, I also consulted The Sopranos Family Cookbook, where I found a more traditional version of osso buco that uses veal.
