cinta senese

A prize breed of black and white pigs (officially Suino Cinto Toscano DOP, also in the Slow Food Presidum) from the province of Siena, with floppy ears and a worried look. They go back to ancient times, and you can see them pictured in art, notably in Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico. Menus offer refer to the (redder, tastier, and with less cholesterol than other) pork simply as cinta; if you see 'cinturello' it comes from the area around Orvieto in Umbria.

St Anthony Abbot with a cinta senese pig, by Matteo da Gualdo, in the Oratorio dei Pellegrini, Assisi (1457)