Making Amends (and a friend) Via Cuisine Francais Photo 3

Making Amends (and a friend) Via Cuisine Francais

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March 21st 2011
Adventures with the Verdades continued: Coming home from Aveiro, I decided to say thank you to this wonderful family the best way I know how, by cooking up a grand feast. The meal was simple, Coq au Vin being something of a standby in my repetoire. But taking over the kitchen was a bit of a trick. Since my arrival at the Casa Verdade, I went about as I do, washing the dishes here and sweepin ... read more

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more