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Pamela Elder

Pamela Elder

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 4 : Europe

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview The Republic of Portugal lies at the southwestern corner of continental Europe and includes the autonomous regions of the Madeira Islands and Azores, which lie hundreds of miles to the west...

Conflicting Wine Narratives: “Pleasing Prospects” and the Struggles in the Construction of Alentejo

Nuno Domingos

Nuno Domingos is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at theInstituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa,and a Research Associate of the Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Between the Country and the City : Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Since 2009, the Comissão Vitivinícola Regional Alentejana (CVRA, Regional Commission for Alentejo wine) has organized an annual fair in Lisbon, one of the major markets for wines from the southern Portuguese region of Alentejo. According...

Salt Cod and the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine

José M. Sobral

José M. Sobral

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The Emergence of National Food : The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...Introduction Salt cod—bacalhau in Portuguese—is a major foodstuff in present-day Portugal. The Portuguese are its foremost consumers worldwide with more than 6 kg per capita, a situation that has been going on for a very long time...

Unpacking the Mediterranean Diet: Agriculture, Food, and Health

Monica Truninger

Monica Truninger

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Dulce Freire

Dulce Freire

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Food Between the Country and the City : Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...In 2010, UNESCO included the Mediterranean diet on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In this diet, olive oil, cereals, fruits, and vegetables are essential foods, together with moderate amounts...

The Country, the Nation, and the Region in Representations of Portuguese Food and Cuisine

José Manuel Sobral

José Manuel Sobral was Assistant Professor of History at the Universidade de Lisboa where he taught European Medieval History and Portuguese Contemporary History from 1977-1984, and is now Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, where he is currently the Director of the PhD Program in Social Anthropology. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Between the Country and the City : Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Food and Cuisine in Contemporary Portugal: Between Cosmopolitanism and the Regional and Local Just as in many affluent countries, today’s culinary selection in Portugal is characterized by great pluralism. Although...

Perceptions of the Country through the Migration of City-grown Crops: Guinean Food in Bissau and in Lisbon

Maria Abranches

Maria Abranches

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Food Between the Country and the City : Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Guinea-Bissau is a small country of around one and a half million inhabitants situated on the West African coast. Its economy is based predominantly on agriculture, and farming activities are part of the country’s urban and rural...

Portuguese in Asia

Janet Boileau

Janet Boileau

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 3 : Asia and Oceania

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview At the end of the 15th century Portuguese navigators sailed around the southern tip of Africa and opened a new sea route to the spice-growing regions of India and the Far East. For the next 150...