From a distance Sao Jorge is an island of cliffs and fajas, but Maria discovers so much more. She sees first hand how their world famous cheese is made, visits a coffee plantation, then cooks Holy Ghost soup and local specialty Especies. Maria also meets transplant Peeter Adriaans, best described as a renaissance man originally from Amsterdam, who made a home on Sao Jorge after what can only be described as a shipwreck.
Episode Duration: 27 minutes and 20 seconds
Episode Number: 206
Sun, Sep 1 | 7:00 P.M. | Sao Jorge, Azores NH Create (11.4) |
When Maria Lawton was six years old her family emigrated to the United States from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores, a stunning archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Maria documented the cooking and food memories so vital to her childhood, rediscovering her family's traditional recipes and putting them into her first cookbook, Azorean Cooking: From My Table to Yours.
As a complement to her book, Maria blends her love of Portuguese food, traditions, and culture with the cooking and travel series "Maria's Portuguese Table".
In this first series she goes on an 8-part food and travel odyssey starting in Rhode Island USA to Sao Miguel Azores, to California.
Rediscover one of the world's oldest cultures with her!
Sun, Aug 4 | 7:00 P.M. | Boston, Massachusetts NH Create (11.4) |
Sun, Aug 11 | 7:00 P.M. | Fall River, Massachusetts NH Create (11.4) |
Sun, Aug 18 | 7:00 P.M. | New Bedford, Massachusetts NH Create (11.4) |
Sun, Aug 25 | 7:00 P.M. | Terceira, Azores NH Create (11.4) |
Sun, Sep 1 | 7:00 P.M. | Sao Jorge, Azores NH Create (11.4) |
Sun, Sep 8 | 7:00 P.M. | Sao Jorge and Pico NH Create (11.4) |
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