As fomo shooted to extraterrestrial heights, facing my soon-to-be departure from Pollenzo, my friend Alessio and I decided to initiate an event that people would not soon forget. 

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What did we do? We bought a whole lamb, buried it underground, and let it cook there. Quick instructions:

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1. Buy whole lamb, try not to pay 20€/kg like we did (it was a very good lamb, though)

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2. Dig a whole. Lay stones inside the hole. Start a fire on top of the stones. But stones on top of the fire. Let burn.

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3. Wrap lamb in aluminium foil or very thick cotton. Put soil on top of the top-layer of stones. Put lamb inside. Put so much soil that you can't see smoke escape.

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3a. We added a bunch of herbs from the garden (thyme, sage, rosemary) between first layer of soil and lamb. That was a good idea, butvery smokey.

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4. Wait 5 hours. Dig lamb out of the soil. Eat with friends.

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Here are some impressions of that event.

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Poster design by me, illustrations by Clare McLaughlin Ling.

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