Edition 91 - Our Grocery

Bacalhau do Barents

Bacalhau do Barents is a company in the codfish processing industry, located in Gafanha da Nazaré, in Ílhavo, that has been placing traditionally cured Portuguese codfish on the national and international market since 1966, guaranteeing the quality of its texture and taste.

Luís Pato

Known in the wine scene as the "rebel producer" of Bairrada wine region, Luís Pato is an outstanding winemaker of Portugal, who started to produce wines in 1980. His father, João Pato, was the first bottler of Bairrada, after the classification as Demarcated Wine Region. From his father Luís inherited the non-conformism and the desire to make something new. While breaking conventions.

Costa Nova fish market

Food isn't just food. It is a way of expressing central values of ethics and sustainability. As a result of the global pandemic, a true revolution is taking place in the food sector.

Food & Drink

Portuguese chicken

In Portugal, the four indigenous chicken breeds, Pedrês Portuguesa, Preta Lusitânica, Amarela (yellow) and Branca (white), are on the verge of extinction, so their conservation is absolutely urgent.

Food & Drink

Vale da Estrela

There are projects that become lifetime achievements. Vale da Estrela is a one of them. This Serra da Estrela cheese brand is a love letter to a whole community, to shepherds and to women cheese-makers. A tribute to memory made by a prestigious former minister and politician, Jorge Coelho, who never forgot his roots.

Rye bread of Videmonte

The Mountain Village of Videmonte has an identity strongly influenced by the rye culture. Céu and Manuel Proença created the project called Vim do Monte, combining the purest tradition with the evolution of time.

Olive oil

Ourogal is a premium olive oil Portuguese brand, whose century-old olive groves are located in the region of Abrantes. Luiz-Lopes family has cared for its olive groves for more than four generations and is proud to maintain its long tradition of production of olive oil from its trees, some of which are 2000 years old. Combining traditional practices with the most modern technology, the new and modern olive groves live side by side with the centuries-old olive groves.