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Mention Portuguese cuisine, and most people’s thought bubbles overflow with images of port wine and custard tarts. Perhaps they’re also familiar with bacalhau – the salted codfish the Portuguese famously have over a 1000 recipes for – or the tradition…
I’d never eaten octopus before. It was the tentacles… the tentacles unnerved me. Unworldly coils of rubbery flesh speckled with suction caps. I believe in eating as a full sensory experience that goes beyond mere taste: there’s much to be…
So, here we have the first part of her A to Z of Portuguese food and drink. A is for arroz As a child, I never ate rice (arroz). In fact, I grew up thinking that I hated it. Since moving…
I’m pleased to report that our big family Christmas was a huge success and all of the food, both English and Portuguese, went down very well! So well, in fact, that everything we eat for the next six weeks has…
