Today is the world day of alimentation and we decided to show here some of the most known azorean foods!
Between soups, meat and fish dishes, desserts, etc., when talking about the gastronomy of the Azores, it’s impossible to not talk about the Holy Spirit’s soup, the fried jack mackerels with “Vilão” sauce, regional steak, blood sausage with pineaaple, the “alcatra” from Terceira, the “cozido” in the Furnas’ boilers, the roasted octopus, the “sweet bread”, the “queijadas Dona Amélia”, the “queijadas” from Graciosa, “malassadas”, “bolos lêvedos” among many other delights from the azorean gastronomy!
Did you know that the american whalers in the Azores in the 18th and 19th century recruited many Azoreans to work in the whaling, and consequently it started the azorean emigration to the United States? Something interesting about it, it’s also the fact that the consumption of octopus by the azoreans is a little bit related with whaling because when they hunted whales, a part of the animal went to the sea and it led to the origin of marine colonies near the factorys and the octopus usually were present to eat.
Last modified: 2 de February, 2022
