RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 57

August 2007


PART XXIII:
Food & Wine, Agriculture


See also items 41, 42, 75, 104, 153, 183, 210 & 216.

523. BERNARDES, João Pedro, and Luís Filipe Oliveira, eds. A vinha & o vinho no Algarve: o renascer de uma velha tradição. Porto: Afrontamento, 2006. Very lge. 4° (29 x 25.8 cm.), publ. illus. bds. with d.j. 104 pp., maps, well illus., mostly in color, bibliography. ISBN: 972-36-0843-X. $35.00

Texts by João Luís Fontes, João Pedro Bernardes, Luís Filipe Oliveira, Miguel Godinho, and Orlando Simões.


524. PULGA, Joaquim. Alentejanado: estórias e sabores. 3rd ed. Mário Pulga, illus. Évora: Casa do Sul, 2006. 4° (20 x 17.1 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 125 pp., (1 l. advt.), illus. ISBN: 972-8661-26-6. $25.00


525. SILVA, Carlos Guardado da, ed. História da alimentação. Torres Vedras: Câmara Municipal, and Lisbon: Colibri / Instituto de Estudos Regionais e do Municpalismo Alexandre Herculano, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, 2007. Colecção Turres Veteras, IX. Sm. folio (27 x 19 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 263 pp., (1 l. colophon), ample illus. in text, much illus. in color, extensvie footnotes. One of 750 copies. ISBN: 972–772–728–5. $40.00

Includes essays on ancient Mesopotamia by António Ramos dos Santos, the consumption of meat at festive and funerary banquets in ancient Rome by Inês de Orbellas e Castro, the Arab legacy in the Algarve by Alfredo Saramago, eating on campaign during the Middle Ages by Pedro Gomes Barbosa, bread in the city during the late Middle Ages by Iria Gonçalves, bread and wine in Portugal during the late Middle Ages by Carla Devesa Rodrigues, examples of medieval eating in the catigas de escárnio e maldizer by Maria Manuela Caterino, symbolic elements of the culture of food in medieval and modern art by Marco Daniel Duarte, continuity and rupture in eating habits in relation to Portuguese overseas expansion by Carlos Veloso, the question of “subsisências” in Torres Vedras (1916-1918) by Venerando Aspra de Matos, “Alimentação e publicidade alimentar na revista ABC – (1920-1926)” by Isabel M.R. Mendes Drumond Braga, an elogy to soup by Paulino Mota Tavares, pasteis de Belem by Salete Salvado, and more.


526. VIEIRA, Alberto. A vinha e o vinho na história da Madeira, séculos XV a XX. Funchal: Região Autónoma da Madeira / Secretaria Regional do Turismo e Cultura / Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico, 2003. Colecção Memórias, 46. Folio (28.5 x 21.9 cm.), publ. gilt-stamped leatherette. with d.j. 585 pp., much illus., more than half in color, footnotes, bibliography, numerous tables in text. ISBN: 972-8246-67-6. $85.00


527. VIEIRA, Alberto, ed. Os vinhos licorosos e a história: seminário internacional, 19 a 24 de Abril 1998. Funchal: Secretaria Regional do Turismo e Cultura / Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico, 1998. Colecção Memórias, 20. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 362 pp., maps, color illus., numerous tables, graphs and footnotes in text. ISBN: 972-8263-08-2. $50.00

Of the eighteen papers, two are in French, four in Spanish, and one in English; the rest are in Portuguese. After remarks by the Regional Secretary for Agriculture, Forests and Fishing, and the President of the CEHA, there are sections of wine in general (4 papers), Madeira wine (6 papers), Port wine (7 papers), and Malaga (1 paper).