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Rillettes

Pork slow-cooked in fat and shredded into a spreadable potted paste.

France Charcuterie & cured

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

A speciality of Tours and Le Mans that Rabelais called brown pig jam; rillettes de Tours gained PGI protection in 2013.

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What is Rillettes?

Rillettes is a charcuterie & cured from France: pork slow-cooked in fat and shredded into a spreadable potted paste. A speciality of Tours and Le Mans that Rabelais called brown pig jam; rillettes de Tours gained PGI protection in 2013.

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porkspices

Cooked

stewedpounded

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