China Box Roast Pig Canvas Print

This small pig was cooked by Kaleo at Ironwood Hills Golf Course here on Molokai. The cleaned pig is first rubbed with sea salt, then placed inside the Caja China roasting box between two stainless steel racks, and cooks using the heat from charcoal or wood placed on top of the pig roasting box on a stainless steel grill. The racks are secured with four stainless steel hooks that hold the meat in place and make flipping the pig much easier. Cooking times typically vary between three and four hours depending on the size of the pig. This gives the cook time to party!

I've lived in Hawaii since 2002, 1200 feet above sea level, on the small rural island of Moloka'i. It is very quiet here, with only about 7,400 residents. I appreciate the quiet life after spending 35 years as a commercial illustrator, senior art director and design director for major advertising agencies and design studios in Chicago, San Francisco and Palo Alto California. I've always loved cooking. In 2002 that love led me to a degree in the Culinary Arts just before moving to Hawaii. Since then I designed and built a house, worked in local restaurants, self-published three cookbooks, and took up photography as a hobby. Now retired, I spend most of my time developing recipes and photographing them, plus researching and writing...