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The Portuguese Canon

Fifty-three entries

Contents
I
Overview & Cultural Context
Why this cuisine is its own thing — roots, history, the living movement.
1 II
The Land & Sea
Terroir — geography, climate, what grows and swims here.
opening III
The Pantry
The defining ingredients, named to species.
5 IV
The Method
The foundational techniques the cuisine is built on.
9 V
The Canonical Dishes
The dishes a serious practitioner is expected to know.
37 VI
The Beverage Tradition
Wines, spirits, ferments, tea and coffee, ceremonial drinks.
opening VII
The Table & Service
How the food is served and eaten — the order, the rituals, the hospitality.
opening VIII
The Thread
Where this book connects to others — migration, trade, diaspora.
1 IX
The Lineage & Authorities
The masters, the literature, the sources an entry is anchored to.
opening X
The Network
The producers and purveyors who carry the real ingredients.
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Portuguese · V The Canonical Dishes

The Canonical Dishes

Seventeen entries

Bread soups and boiled dinners form the structural base of this chapter, preparations built on poverty-larder logic that became national emblems. Salt cod, pork, and the rice dishes that carry both appear next, followed by the sandwiches and street foods that codified themselves into the canonical record. The chapter closes with pastry, the egg-custard tradition, and the regional sweets whose techniques are as fixed as any savoury doctrine.

Açorda à alentejana: Alentejo bread soupSopa de cação: Alentejo dogfish soupCaldo VerdeMinhoSopa da pedra: Portuguese stone soupCozido à portuguesa: the great boiled dinnerCozido das Furnas: Azorean geothermal cookingPorco à alentejana: pork and clamsMigas alentejanas: Alentejo bread and porkBacalhau à BrásLisbonArroz de pato: duck riceFrango Piri PiriAlgarveChouriço à bombeiro: flambéed sausage tablesideFrancesinhaBifanas: Portuguese pork sandwichPastéis de NataLisbonRabanadas: Portuguese French toastBolo de mel: Madeira dark molasses cake
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Portuguese · V

The Canonical Dishes

The dishes a serious practitioner is expected to know.

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Bread soups and boiled dinners form the structural base of this chapter, preparations built on poverty-larder logic that became national emblems. Salt cod, pork, and the rice dishes that carry both appear next, followed by the sandwiches and street foods that codified themselves into the canonical record. The chapter closes with pastry, the egg-custard tradition, and the regional sweets whose techniques are as fixed as any savoury doctrine.

Bacalhau
Five entries
Bolinhos de bacalhau: salt cod fritters · Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá · Bacalhau com natas
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Desserts
Three entries
Arroz doce: Portuguese rice pudding · Aletria: Portuguese vermicelli pudding · Farofias: Portuguese floating islands
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Pastry Egg
Five entries
Pão de Ló: Portuguese sponge cake · Fios de ovos: Portuguese egg thread technique · Ovos moles d'Aveiro
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Rice Seafood
Three entries
Arroz de marisco: Portuguese seafood rice · Arroz de tamboril: monkfish rice · Arroz de lingueirão: razor clam rice
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Seafood
Four entries
Caldeirada de peixe: Portuguese fisherman's stew · Sardinhas assadas: grilled sardines · Amêijoas à bulhão pato
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Also in this chapter
17 entries
Açorda à alentejana: Alentejo bread soupSopa de cação: Alentejo dogfish soupCaldo VerdeSopa da pedra: Portuguese stone soupCozido à portuguesa: the great boiled dinnerCozido das Furnas: Azorean geothermal cookingPorco à alentejana: pork and clamsMigas alentejanas: Alentejo bread and porkBacalhau à BrásArroz de pato: duck riceFrango Piri PiriChouriço à bombeiro: flambéed sausage tablesideFrancesinhaBifanas: Portuguese pork sandwichPastéis de NataRabanadas: Portuguese French toastBolo de mel: Madeira dark molasses cake
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