Tasca Days
Fourteen Portuguese recipes, and the language, law and labels of the Portuguese table
Last updated · PDF edition v2026.09.21
A field guide to eating in Portugal and cooking Portuguese food at home. Eighty-one pages: fourteen recipes — tomato rice, caldo verde, feijoada, pork and clams, açorda, salt-cod fritters, bifana, octopus rice, sericaia and more — set in a regional compass that says plainly which dishes have documented origins and which do not. Around the recipes sits the practical apparatus: the Portuguese words on a menu and how to order with them, what tasca, casa de pasto, cervejaria and marisqueira actually mean, and the consumer rules that govern your bill — what the price list must show, exactly how Portuguese law defines the couvert and when it can be charged, VAT-inclusive pricing, the conta and the fatura, and the complaints book. A protected-names section prints the exact registered forms you will meet on labels and market stalls, and names the famous ones that are not registered at all. Five printable quick-reference cards compress the whole thing for use at the table. Every legal and register statement is cited to its instrument with 46 endnotes and a dated methodology. No restaurant listings or maps.
Fourteen Portuguese recipes, and the language, law and labels of the Portuguese table.
- Fourteen Portuguese recipes with metric and US measures
- A regional compass that says plainly which dishes have documented origins and which do not
- The Portuguese words you need on a menu and in a market
- Dining and consumer guidance, including couvert
- Protected names and label guidance
- Quick-reference material for the table
- Sourced endnotes
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- Metric and US measures, prep times and servings
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