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Minett and the Red Lands

Minett

Subregional

The south-west iron-ore basin — the RED LANDS, named for the ore in the soil — around ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE, DIFFERDANGE, DUDELANGE and Rumelange. Luxembourg’s steel industry was built here and so was its modern population: ITALIAN migration from the 1890s and PORTUGUESE from the 1960s arrived to work the mines and the mills. The result is a genuinely different food geography from the rest of the country — pasta, pizza, bacalhau, grilled chicken and Portuguese bakeries as ordinary local food, alongside the canteen and the miners’ café.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Luxembourgish

What is recorded

  • Italian migration from the 1890s and Portuguese migration from the 1960s into the iron and steel industry of the Minett shaped the food geography of southern Luxembourg and of the country as a whole. Roughly half of Luxembourg’s residents are foreign nationals, with Portuguese the largest single community. documented
  • Italian migration into the Minett iron and steel basin. documented
  • Portuguese migration into Luxembourg, which becomes the country’s largest single foreign community. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Italian documented
  • related to Portuguese Foodways documented

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

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