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Portuguese cuisine

Portuguese cuisine contains many herb seasoned dishes like linguiça, a seasoned pork sausage with onions, garlic and pepper. The Portuguese are known for their outstanding wines and their love of cod. They have many seafood dishes and eat octopus, cod and other seafood. Sardinhas assadas (grilled sardines with salt, olive oil, bell peppers and onions) is a popular dish. The biggest meat is a type of sausage called chourico (chourice in America). Fall River, Massachusetts is a place in America where you can find fine Portuguese cuisine. Most of Fall River is Portuguese and they specialize in chourice and cod.

Many of the world finest wines, such as port and Madeira, are from Portugal.

Last updated: 09-01-2005 02:26:19