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A Quick Guide to Bacalhau

Posted in Food, Portugal
Lisa Mc Sherry

Portuguese love bacalhau (BAA-ka-lau, except that “lh” together means you give it kind of a “yuh” sound there in the middle) which is dried and salted codfish. It’s a staple…

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Food & Wine: Castanhas Edition

Posted in Braga, Food
Lisa Mc Sherry

We’re enjoying our first visitor (Hi C!) this week and it’s been a lot of firsts for us. You see, we’ve been terrible residents in Braga because we have done…

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“Oh, Rocky!”

Posted in Daily Life, Food
Lisa Mc Sherry

For many of us seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the late night run in the local movie theater was a kind of rite of passage. This gorgeously schlocky…

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Eating our Fill, continued: London 2024, Part 8

Posted in England, Food
Lisa and John

This post is part of a series called London 2024 We’re wrapping up tales of our trip to London. It turns out that we ate at interesting places more than…

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Eating our Fill, continued: London 2024, Part 7

Posted in England, Food
Lisa and John

This post is part of a series called London 2024 This post covers three places we really enjoyed, two a bit upscale and one that would easily be a “joint.”

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Eating our Fill, continued: London 2024, Part 6

Posted in England, Food
Lisa and John

This post is part of a series called London 2024 When we arrived in London our hosts (clients? friends? the people who own the house we’re staying in, roll with…

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Eating Our Fill – J Sheekey: London 2024, Part 4

Posted in England, Food
Lisa Mc Sherry

This post is part of a series called London 2024 A little while back we talked about our aborted attempt to see Ian McKellen in “Player Kings”. When those plans…

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Cave Dining in Guimares

Posted in Food, Portugal
Lisa and John

Our friends A&B have been raving about a meat-intensive utterly delicious restaurant in the hills just above Guimares. A bunch of us arranged cars and set out on a bit…

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San Francisco Dining: A Collection

Posted in Food
Lisa Mc Sherry

I grew up in San Francisco, and family have lived there since the early 70s. I’ve watched it’s food scene for a lot of decades, from the early days of…

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Volterra

Posted in Food
Lisa Mc Sherry

(9/16) Volterra, city of alabaster, was a “must do,” more for me than J. It was also the furthest away from Foresteria Il Giardino, about 2 hours in ideal condition,…

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