Book review: George Mendes' My Portugal - recipes rustic and refined

From the introduction to his cookbook, it sounds as if Georges Mendes had the classic first-generation American childhood - going to school, where he played football in between classes, then rushing home, where family life was much like it would have been in the small Portuguese village that his parents were born in. He writes, "They brought with them a deep knowledge of the dishes they grew up eating and plans to keep grilling sardines and roasting suckling pigs in Danbury, Connecticut, where their extended family and other villagers had immigrated en masse.



via Danbury Newswire http://ift.tt/1BMcbUh