Portugal boasts one of the best cuisines in the world. But Portuguese food can also be intimidating. The days of being afraid to cook your VoVó’s favorite recipes are over, because I’m  here to measure everything out, map it out patiently, and put everything into easy to understand English! From Seafood to Meats, from Gameday foods to Desserts, I’m covering all of your favorite Portuguese recipes. Impress your friends and family alike, because I can assure you, everyone will be going back for seconds!

Portuguese cookbook with 46 delicious easy to make recipes!

Join our book club! We are starting our Saudade Book Club and are so excited to discuss, listen and learn alongside you. The themes will range from identity, to immigration, to gender, to race, to love, to heartbreak, to self-help, to aging. All books will have a thread connected to Saudade, either because it’s a Portuguese author, or about a Portuguese immigrant neighbourhood, or a forbidden love, or colonization, or a Canadian novel which has also been translated to Portuguese. Our goal is to host safe spaces where we connect, share, listen, learn and leave inspired. When you buy one session it includes the book and attending the book club event. We will reveal the book a few days after you join. If you already have the book we will give you a credit note towards another book. . Each book will have a Book Club date held at our shop or at another exciting location.  On some book club dates we will be lucky to have the author or a special guest join us. 😍 Let’s be inspired together. ♥️ This is also a great gift!!! You can buy one session for $25 plus shipping or a package of 6 for $140 plus shipping of each book. 4-5 weeks before the date you will receive the book or you can pick up the book at our shop. 

Session 1 Nov 18th 
Session 2 Feb 10th 
Session 3 April 28 
Session 5  June 16th
Session 6  Sept 

Barnacle Love, Paperback, By Anthony De Sa

Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience.

At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portuguese village and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations to build a future for himself in a terra nova. Manuel struggles to shed the traditions of a village frozen in time and to silence the brutal voice of Maria Theresa da Conceicao Rebelo, but embracing the promise of his adopted land is not as simple as he had hoped.

Manuel’s son, Antonio, is born into Toronto’s little Portugal, a world of colourful houses and labyrinthine back alleys. In the Rebelo home the Church looms large, men and women inhabit sharply divided space, pigs are slaughtered in the garage, and a family lives in the shadow cast by a father’s failures. Most days Antonio and his friends take to their bikes, pushing the boundaries of their neighbourhood street by street, but when they finally break through to the city beyond they confront dangers of a new sort.

Part of a new travel series, Portugal: The Monocle Handbook is a practical guide that will introduce you to the best the country has to offer as we present our favourite spots across the country. We’ve travelled from north to south (via the islands) to find innovative retailers and traditional ateliers, the chefs turning out the tastiest dishes and the sleekest hotels – not to mention undiscovered beaches and world-leading cultural venues. We even reveal the best neighbourhoods to invest in should you wish to put down roots in this sunny nation, plus the plucky entrepreneurs who’ve already made the move. It’s time to pack your bags for Portugal.

Features: 208 pages, hardcover

Published by: Monocle

Printed in: Italy

Dimensions: 24.1cm x 18.6cm x 2.2cm

More delicious, easy to follow recipes from the streets of Lisbon to the rustic countryside.

Carol Robertson shares her fascination with the country and its cuisine in lively journal entries and delightful drawings, while David Robertson's evocative photographs provide a look at the wonders of the Portuguese landscape and culture. The result is a personal travel book for lovers of good food. Portugal is blessed with a flavorful and complex cuisine that brings together influences from Europe, Africa, and the Muslim world. The simple-to-prepare dishes rely on pork and seafood of all kinds, as well as tomatoes, olives, kale, hot and sweet peppers, garlic, mint, and the silken magic of virgin olive oil. Treat yourself to a true taste of Portugal.

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• Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker's Book Award, 2023 (Short-listed)

This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime “cleaning ladies” in postwar Toronto.

Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labour historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta piece together the lives of immigrant women who bucked convention by reshaping domestic labour and by leading union drives, striking for workers’ rights, and taking on corporate capital in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. Despite being sidelined within the labour movement and subjected to harsh working conditions in the commercial cleaning industry, the women forged critical alliances with local activists to shape picket-line culture and make an indelible mark on their communities.

Richly detailed and engagingly written, Cleaning Up is an archival treasure about an undersung piece of working-class history in urban North America.

A nova aventura da menina Néveda apresenta-nos a um novo meio de transporte e uma viajem pelas Américas. Do Canadá, passando por alguns lugares nos Estados Unidos, México, Brasil e terminando no Uruguai, a Néveda aprende sobre lugares, arte e muita cultura em geral.

conto/story: Terry Costa
ilustração/illustration: Vera Bettencourt

With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.

The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together.
     Beautiful, witty and engaging, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels.

Paperback Edition

de Helena Ales Pereira; Fotografia: Inês Subtil 

Fotografias, entrevistas e os bastidores da série Portuguesa mais vista de sempre. 

No dia 26 de maio de 2023, estreava, na Netflix, Rabo de Peixe. Dois dias depois, a série portuguesa era número 1 no top nacional da Netflix, onde se manteve ao longo de mais de dois meses, tornando-se assim a série mais vista de sempre em Portugal.

Além-fronteiras, chegou a mais de 190 países e, em mais 38, a história de quatro amigos que tentam escapar ao seu destino alcançou o top das séries mais vistas, acumulando mais de 45 milhões de horas de visualizações, segundo dados divulgados pela empresa em junho deste ano.

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E se a verdadeira história de Rabo de Peixe for ainda mais rocambolesca do que aquela que é contada na série da Netflix?

No dia 6 de junho de 2001, Antonino Giuseppe Quinci, o protagonista da história que mudou o destino de várias gerações de rabopeixenses, aportou na vila, depois de ter escondido, pela costa de São Miguel, mais de 700 quilos de cocaína.

O açoriano Rúben Pacheco Correia empreendeu uma longa viagem à procura da verdade dos factos, assim como dos protagonistas de carne e osso, da história que inspirou a série. Sem saber até onde o iria levar a investigação a que se dedicou durante quase dois anos e que o fez viajar até à Itália e ao Brasil, o autor, conhecido gastrónomo e comentador televisivo, partiu com o desígnio de fazer justiça à verdade e também à vila onde nasceu em 1997.

Passados mais de vinte anos, o país e o mundo podem, finalmente, conhecer o rosto dos protagonistas reais e as suas histórias, inéditas e peculiares, que se desenrolaram naquele trágico ano e que mudaram, para sempre, o destino de Rabo de Peixe.

Será que, realmente, as pessoas panaram peixe com a cocaína do traficante italiano? Fizeram linhas de campo de futebol com a droga? Houve, de facto, algum padre que sofreu uma overdose? E, afinal, quem era e onde está o protagonista de todo este desastre? Como fugiu da prisão? E quem são os demais envolvidos nesta história?

Neste livro, Rúben Pacheco Correia leva o leitor a sentir-se parte da investigação, fá-lo vibrar a cada pista conseguida, levantar voo a cada viagem, e concluir que, nesta história, a realidade supera mesmo a ficção.

Reflects the diversity of Portuguese cuisine.  Seamlessly balancing selections from “grandmother’s“ home cooking with modern adaptations from Canada’s Portuguese community.

The Land At The End Of The World written by Antonio Lobo Antunes and translated by Margaret Jull Costa.

"Brilliant…harrowing…Packs the impact of an exploding mortar shell." —Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, one of the twentieth century’s most original literary voices offers "kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist past and its bloody colonial wars in Africa" (Paris Review). Hailed as a masterpiece of world literature, The Land at the End of the World—in an acclaimed translation by Margaret Jull Costa—recounts the anguished tale of a Portuguese medic haunted by memories of war. Like the Ancient Mariner who will tell his tale to anyone who listens, the narrator’s evening unfolds like a fever dream that is both tragic and haunting. The result is one of the great war novels of the modern age.

Author

António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.

Translator

Margaret Jull Costa, who has translated Javier Marías and José Saramago, lives in England.

Written by Jose Saramago, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero

Written by Paulo Coelho, Translated to English by Alan R. Clarke

The extraordinary international bestseller.

“It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons."—Neil Patrick Harris, actor

“Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, this beloved work of philosophical fiction, The Alchemist, has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a profound journey of spiritual self-discovery.

Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

About Author:

Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, is one of the bestselling and most influential authors in the world.The Alchemist,The Pilgrimage,The Valkyries,Brida,Veronika Decides to Die,Eleven Minutes,The Zahir,The Witch of Portobello,The Winner Stands Alone,Aleph,Manuscript Found in Accra, andAdultery, among others, have sold 150 million copies worldwide.