Fruto de um exaustivo trabalho de pesquisa que perdurou por 20 longos anos, Maria de Lourdes Modesto recolheu milhares de receitas recebidas de todos os recantos de Portugal, onde 800 foram selecionadas atendo-se à sua autenticidade e representatividade. De cada região, foram incluídos os pratos mais característicos, confeccionados e apresentados fielmente ao local de sua concepção, além de cada receita vir acompanhada de uma nota biográfica – fazendo referência à sua origem e traçando-lhe sua evolução. Enfim, trata-se de uma magnífica obra, cuja vida pode ser conferida em cada receita e contemplada em cada sabor reproduzido.
Long before Jamie Oliver became the darling of British food or Julia Child was the most famous culinary presenter on American television, Portuguese cook Maria de Lourdes Modesto was making waves with the most popular live cooking show ever to be shown on national TV and which ruled the airwaves for 12 years (since 1958). Over her prolific career, Maria de Lourdes Modesto has published a number of cookbooks, such as her most acclaimed work – A Cozinha Tradicional Portuguesa (Verbo). The result of exhaustive research that lasted over 20 years, this bible of Portuguese cuisine enjoyed the precious assistance of many anonymous contributors who sent in their recipes from all over the country. Maria de Lourdes Modesto respectfully worked on these recipes, studied their origins and tried to establish weights and measurements – no mean Fiat as, in her own words, “precise mathematical formulas have no place in traditional cooking, where creativity and intuition have an important role”. A Cozinha Tradicional Portuguesa boasts 800 representative and authentic recipes from all of Portugal’s regions (islands included), and is an fine example of the “Portuguese culinary repertoire”.
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Fruto de um exaustivo trabalho de pesquisa que perdurou por 20 longos anos, Maria de Lourdes Modesto recolheu milhares de receitas recebidas de todos os recantos de Portugal, onde 800 foram selecionadas atendo-se à sua autenticidade e representatividade. De cada região, foram incluídos os pratos mais característicos, confeccionados e apresentados fielmente ao local de sua concepção, além de cada receita vir acompanhada de uma nota biográfica – fazendo referência à sua origem e traçando-lhe sua evolução. Enfim, trata-se de uma magnífica obra, cuja vida pode ser conferida em cada receita e contemplada em cada sabor reproduzido.
Long before Jamie Oliver became the darling of British food or Julia Child was the most famous culinary presenter on American television, Portuguese cook Maria de Lourdes Modesto was making waves with the most popular live cooking show ever to be shown on national TV and which ruled the airwaves for 12 years (since 1958). Over her prolific career, Maria de Lourdes Modesto has published a number of cookbooks, such as her most acclaimed work – A Cozinha Tradicional Portuguesa (Verbo). The result of exhaustive research that lasted over 20 years, this bible of Portuguese cuisine enjoyed the precious assistance of many anonymous contributors who sent in their recipes from all over the country. Maria de Lourdes Modesto respectfully worked on these recipes, studied their origins and tried to establish weights and measurements – no mean Fiat as, in her own words, “precise mathematical formulas have no place in traditional cooking, where creativity and intuition have an important role”. A Cozinha Tradicional Portuguesa boasts 800 representative and authentic recipes from all of Portugal’s regions (islands included), and is an fine example of the “Portuguese culinary repertoire”.
