Portuguese Foodways

Where in the world

• Portugal territory

Communities and languages

Languages: Portuguese

Related foodways

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• influenced Klippfisk — Salted Dried Cod documented

  Norwegian and Icelandic klippfisk supplied the Portuguese bacalhau trade; the dishes are Portuguese.

• influenced by Angolan Cuisine documented
• influenced by Brazilian Cuisine documented

  Portuguese contact is documented. Brazilian cuisine is not Portuguese cuisine.

• influenced by Cape Verdean Cuisine documented
• influenced by Goan Cuisine documented
• influenced by Kristang (Portuguese Eurasian) Cuisine documented
• influenced by Macanese Cuisine documented
• influenced by Mozambican Cuisine documented
• influenced by São Toméan Cuisine documented
• influenced by Timorese Cuisine documented
• originates from Portuguese and Chinese Guyanese Foodways documented

  Garlic pork is Madeiran carne de vinha d’alhos remade in Guyana, and is now Christmas food across every Guyanese community.

• related to Brazilian Cuisine documented

  Three centuries of Portuguese rule, the language, and the bacalhau, wheat and conventual sweet traditions — which is one layer of three, not the whole.

• related to Feijoada disputed

  Bean-and-pork stews are widespread in Portugal and Europe; the popular account deriving feijoada from the scraps given to enslaved people is rejected by most food historians. Both readings are recorded.

• related to Immigrant Foodways in Canada documented
• related to Immigrant Foodways in New England documented

  Portuguese and Azorean whaling and fishing migration into New Bedford and Fall River — kale soup, linguiça, malasadas.

• related to Migration and Luxembourgish Food documented
• related to Migration into Venezuela documented

  Madeiran migration; the panaderías and abastos are still largely Portuguese-run.

• related to Minett and the Red Lands documented

  Portuguese migration from the 1960s reshaped the food of the industrial south and of the country.

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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