The box is La Caja China. This preparation method is known as the fast and easy way to cook a half or whole pig; much easier and faster than the traditional style of cooking cochon de lait, or ...

Especially given the fact that La Caja China, purveyors of the infamous Cuban-style pig-roasting "China Box," just launched a new catering venture in which they'll cook the whole hog (literally) and ...

On Christmas Eve, the 50-pound pig is ready to be placed in a caja china or roasting box, to simmer for four slow hours before the family holiday celebration.

The China box — and Miami's La Caja China — became instantly famous. "That's when my dad saw there's was something more and began to build the business," Avian Guerra says.

La caja China is a device inspired by Chinese rail workers in Cuba. And in Miami, it has become the de rigueur way to cook the traditional Noche Buena pig roast. Only in America.

Crispy skin!” says Avian Guerra, Vice President of La Caja China. In the 1950s, in Cuba, Roberto Guerra saw the Chinese in Havana’s Chinatown cooking in a similar box.

And the roasting wouldn't be the same without a caja china, made by the South Florida company by the same name. For 27 years, family-owned La Caja China has been manufacturing roasting boxes in ...

This versatile box from La Caja China ($1,250; lacajachina.com) allows you to grill or smoke, but its reason for being is roasting whole animals, including pigs up to 100 pounds.

Back in 1985 Roberto Guerra's father told him about a wooden box he had seen in a Chinatown in Cuba. It was used to cook pigs. Two years later, La Caja China was born. Some speculate this box was ...

La Caja China was invented by Roberto Guerra after Guerra's father told him about seeing a wooden box, used to cook whole pigs, in Cuba's Chinatown.