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    From Scratch: How To Make George Mendes's Linguiça Dog

    Linguiça sausage, a spicy Portuguese link of highly seasoned pig innards, is a staple of the menu at NYC chef George Mendes's popular restaurant, Lupulo. It's wood-grilled to a crisp and topped with cilantro, pickled carrot and onion, and chili-infused mayonnaise.Chef Mendes uses the sausage in many forms, including in a breakfast sandwich at Bica. Over Labor Day,…
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    What Are Pastéis De Nata?

    You're probably familiar with a good-sized handful of French, Italian and even Spanish pastries. (Churros, anyone?) But what about Portuguese? This superb cuisine features some killer desserts, and pastéis de nata should be squarely on your radar. We asked New York City's renowned Portuguese chef George Mendes, who sells these bite-sized gems at, Bica, the coffee…
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    An Insider's Guide To Lisbon's Cervejarias

    When chef George Mendes launched Lupulo in New York City last year, the restaurant quickly caught my attention. The simply prepared seafood and traditional Portuguese dishes are presented with the same technical acumen that has made his Aldea a dining destination over the last seven years. And it's served up with a highly curated list of…
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    Copper At Its Best: How To Use A Cataplana

    I lose all impulse control when I’m in a kitchen-supply store. The myriad cooking vessels and specialized tools trigger all my consumer pressure points and send me into an aspirational frenzy. During one of these recent bouts, I discovered a beautiful, clam-shaped pan known as a cataplana. Oddly shaped, made of copper and featuring locking…
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    Linguiça, Chouriço And Parsley Omelet

    Aldea and Lupulo chef George Mendes brings his Michelin-starred Portuguese cuisine to the masses! Read our interview with the chef, and try your hand at a few of his favorite dishes, fresh from his cookbook: My Portugal. Mendes and this sausage-spiked omelet go way back. Also known as mom’s feel-good omelet. On Sundays, we’d have our…
  • Goa Curry Mussels Hot Pot Recipe

    Goa Curry Mussels Hot Pot Recipe

    Chefs Ron Oliver and Bernard Guillas of the renowned Marine Room in La Jolla, California have released the follow-up to their popular self-published cookbook, Two Chefs, One World. Their new book, Two Chefs, One Catch, focuses exclusively on the bounty of the sea, and how to prepare it masterfully for every fish lover you know.  In the late…
  • Salt Cod King: George Mendes Will Bring Portuguese Cooking To The Masses

    Salt Cod King: George Mendes Will Bring Portuguese Cooking To The Masses

    “Right now we’re off to the races,” says George Mendes, with the sound of clanging in the background. He’s standing at the Chelsea — or maybe we'll call it NoMad — construction site that will house his new, un-named restaurant scheduled to open later in the fall. It’s long been anticipated that Mendes, a Portuguese-American…
  • 6 Things To Eat And Drink In Lisbon Right Now

    [caption id="attachment_62934" align="alignnone" width="700" ] In Portugal, snails are a bar snack, a plate piled with maybe two or three dozen miniature hulls.[/caption][caption id="attachment_62935" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Suckling pig at Sacramento.[/caption] I hadn’t been to Lisbon in over a decade. I remembered the pretty tiles, of course. And the gleaming cream-colored pedestrian walks that could…
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    Portuguese Fish Stew

    This soup's selling points are its gutsy rusticity, its ease of preparation and its affordability compared to the expense that so many fish soups can run up. It's great for all those little-known white fish fillets that greet us on the slab in the name of sustainability, which can be a deterrent when they don't…
  • Arroz De Pato Recipe

    There's a very solid reason a seemingly simple rice dish is one of the rock star dishes at the NYC temple to new Portuguese cooking, Aldea. George Mendes' infusion of flavor into everything he touches in his kitchen—besides this recipe, try his tasty shrimp alhinho—keeps the throngs of food-obsessed folks coming back. Serve this rice…