Maria explores Faja da Caldeira Santo Cristo, which the New York Times listed as one of the most beautiful places in the world. While there she learns to cook and then tastes the unique clams that can only be found on that shoreline. Afterwards, she ferries to the island of Pico to learn more about the whaling industry, and meet with winemakers as well as taste the rare wines that were desired by kings and czars for centuries.
Duration: 27 minutes and 20 seconds
Episode Number: 207
Thu, Nov 27 | 9:00 A.M. | Sao Jorge and Pico NH Create (11.4) |
Thu, Nov 27 | 12:00 P.M. | Sao Jorge and Pico NH Create (11.4) |
Thu, Nov 27 | 4:00 P.M. | Sao Jorge and Pico NH Create (11.4) |
Fri, Nov 28 | 3:00 A.M. | Sao Jorge and Pico NH Create (11.4) |
Sun, Nov 30 | 12:00 A.M. | Sao Jorge and Pico 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!
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