Salt Cured Meat: Pork Belly Pancetta

Pancetta or Salt Cured Pork is a simple salume recipe to add to your repertoire. Once cured this salt pork can be used as an ingredient in several traditional pastas and recipes as well as eaten on a charcuterie board.


Chef Alan Barbour is based in the Canadian Maritime provinces. He works as the chef / owner of a small town New Brunswick Bistro. It is here that he researches and explores old and new Maritime recipes and the recipes of Atlantic North America. His cooking style blends diverse styles from Acadian cuisine to Cajun / Creole, Caribbean, Quebecois and more. An avid gardener, chef Alan oversees the intense urban garden behind the bistro. It is here where heritage and heirloom vegetable varieties are selected and grown for the bistro and recipe research. Alan is also passionate about local sustainable seafood, charcuterie, and baking and is an active forager.