pork belly

noun

1. a side of fresh pork.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pork belly¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Roast pork belly redolent and tender as Castilian suckling pig.

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BBC Food has a recipe made with sweet and spicy pork belly and chilli sauce.

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You may unfortunately remember the era through the parts that quickly calcified into cliché: $14 cocktails in Mason jars, the monoculture of pork belly, a nationwide proliferation of flaccid fried green tomatoes.

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Under the heat lamps of the serving counter his team of chefs are busy carving a chunk of crispy pork belly, plating haddock fishcakes and replenishing huge bowls of new potatoes and roasted carrots.

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“I don’t want to intimidate people because a lot of the time you can’t be real with your lawyer,” she tells me over our plates of pork belly lechon and Napa caesar salad.

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