Eat Smart in Portugal: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure by Ronnie Hess and Joan Peterson

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  • ISBN 10 193848911X
  • ISBN 13 9781938489112
  • Published Aug 10 2017
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 160
  • Language English
  • Edition 1st
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Ginkgo Press

Publishers Text

The Eat Smart guides are never out-of-date. We don't tell you where to eat, we help you decide what to eat!

The diminutive size of Portugal, a land area about the size of the U.S. state of Indiana, would suggest that there is not much culinary difference across the regions. Yet, given Portugal's distinctive and variable geography, the country has preserved hundreds of different regionally-specific cooking traditions that are being honored in starred Michelin restaurants and increasingly recognized around the globe.


Portugal's proximity to Spain has given rise to a misconception about Portuguese gastronomy. It is often, incorrectly, lumped with Spanish cookery. While the two countries share common ingredients onions, garlic, olives and olive oil, tomatoes and peppers, rice and fish (especially bacalhau, or salt cod) as well as cooking methods, and while both cuisines are straightforward, honest, hearty, robust and filling, there are many distinctions between the two.


Portuguese cooking has been called more nuanced and florid than that of its neighbor, even more buttery and sweet. The common use of spices, such as cinnamon and cumin, and fruits and vegetables, acknowledges Portugal's early maritime and colonial history, its trade routes around the globe begun in the 15th century.


Like all the culinary guides in the EAT SMART series, Eat Smart in Portugal never goes out of date. It connects menus and markets to geography, history, and regional pride. This easy-to-use guide includes these practical and fun features:
* Tastes of Portugal provides dozens of delicious recipes from chefs and other food experts to allow travelers and food lovers to re-create Portuguese specialties at home
* Portuguese /English Menu Guide demystifies food selection, equipping restaurant diners to order with confidence
* Portuguese/English Food and Flavors Guide provides a comprehensive list of foods, spices, kitchen terms, and more to assist in shopping and cooking in Portugal
* Culinary History of Portugal delves into the origins of ingredients and Portuguese dishes from pre-history to the present
* Regional Portuguese Foods explores local culture, specialty dishes, and holiday traditions
* Helpful Phrases provides phonetic translations of phrases essential to the foodie traveler.

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