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The A to Z of Portuguese Food – Part 8
V is for Vaca Vaca is Portuguese for ‘cow,’ which comes in all manner of cuts from the butcher’s counter. One of the most popular ways to serve beef in restaurants is as a fat steak presented with a...
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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...
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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...
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Cheap Portuguese Lunches
Traditionally in our household, we follow the extravagance of the Christmas and New Year period with ‘frugal January.’ This is our annual tradition of living on a tight budget throughout the month of...
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Smoking Food in Portugal
I love my kitchen gadgets, and it’s something of a running joke with various family members that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find things I don’t have already. At Christmas, my mother hit...
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Portugal in Spring – the First Barbecue of the Year
During the long months of planning before our move to Portugal, one of the things we imagined most often was a simple barbecue of chicken or fish sizzling away on our balcony while we enjoyed a glass...
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Living in Portugal – Adapting to Portuguese Food
(Lou) While preparing dinner last night, I casually picked a few grass stems out of my bunch of coriander before using it. I dropped them into the bin, then paused, reflecting on how incensed I would...
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Feeling Hot Hot Hot! Product Review: Chilli Boy Spicy Olives
We’re always keen to support local artisan food producers here at Food and Wine Portugal. When I recently posted an article about piri-piri chicken, somebody asked in the comments if we’d heard of a...
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Time Out Mercado da Ribeira, Lisbon
I had a day to myself in Lisbon a couple of weeks ago (you can find a write-up of my trip here). Although I’d been to Lisbon several times before, I’d never visited the main food market, the Mercado da...
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Algarve Artisan Food – Chilli Boy
A while ago, we wrote about local food producer Chilli Boy, and specifically their Spicy Olives, which we took a serious shine to. Having had a little more time to try their other products, here are...
View ArticlePartnership with Portugal Holidays
After many years of work put into the website we decided the time had come to let other passionate people take on the mantle and help develop the site further. We are proud to now be part of a new......
View ArticlePort Wine
Portugal is famous across the world for its production of port wine, which is made in the vineyards of the country’s Douro region. Within Europe, only port from Portugal can be sold as port or Porto,...
View ArticleEncosta da Cesta wine bodega in the north of Portugal
When folk come to our little house they nearly always tell us that we have a lovely view. “Shucks,” I say, “everybody’s got one of those.” Not entirely true, of course, but in this area it’s either up...
View ArticleThe Cult of Bimbi in Portugal
The Portuguese don’t really “do” ready meals, and that’s a good thing. However, last week we found out a bit of a secret that some expats may not be aware of; not all of the delicious dishes of...
View ArticleSharing my Portugal food journey
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...
View ArticleSome of the finest lesser known Portuguese food
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...
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