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December 2013

Homemade gingerbread - a Christmas essential
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Portuguese Christmas Treats

This year will be our fifth Christmas since moving to Portugal. One of the things we worried about before we moved here was that Christmas would not seem like Christmas without traditional English treats like mince pies and gingerbread men….

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Olives are inescapable in the Algarve - and rightly so!
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Algarve Diet Recognised by UNESCO

There’s no question that food is an important part of life here in the Algarve. Before tourism, the region was largely devoted to fishing and agriculture, with figs, almonds and oranges all grown in abundance. The trees still dominate the…

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