Fish with Chickpeas
Meia-desfeita de bacalhau com grão is salt cod with chickpeas and hard boiled eggs. It is so good. A friend in Newfoundland made it but I didn't write down how…
Portugal Day
On this day in 1965 Newfoundland Premier Joseph R. Smallwood proclaimed June 17th Portugal Day in the province. It was at the Confederation Building when the Portuguese Fisheries Organization presented…
Ponta Delgada
I’m not a city person, but one city stays in my mind. Ponta Delgada, capital of Saõ Miguel in the Azores: a tiny perfect city. Having flown in to another…
Portugal and Eco: The Knights Templar Castle, Tomar
Vacationing in the Azores, my reading was Humberto Eco’s Foucault's Pendulum. It was my introduction to the Knights Templar and I fell in love. I was going on to Portugal, and Tomar…