RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 59

December 2007

PART XXI:
Food, Wine & other Beverages, Agriculture


See also items 42 & 121.
113. GOMES, Pedro, and Tiago Teles. Portal Portugal 2008: guia de vinhos portugueses & estrangeiros. Barcarena: Presença, 2007. NovaCrítica-Vinho. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 335 pp., graphs in text, index, printed in black and red or black and blue throughout. ISBN: 978-972-23-3855-4. $40.00


114. MODESTO, Maria de Lourdes, Manuela Barbosa. Queijos portugueses, e um olhar gastronómico sobre famosos queijos europeus. Photographs by António Duarte Mil-Homens. Lisbon: Verbo, 2007. Very lge. 8º, publ. illus. bds. 247 pp., profusely illustrated with excellent color photographs, glossary, brief bibliography. ISBN: 978-972-22-2724-7. $50.00

Roughly the first half of the book deals with Portuguese cheeses. Other European cheeses are discussed on pp. 122-59. Then there are sections on cheese at the table, utensils, serving, conserving, nutritional value, and finally cheese in cooking. Maria de Lourdes Modesto is the author of several cookbooks and other books about food, including Cozinha tradicional portuguesa, generally considered one of the best, if not the best, currently available book of Portuguese recipes, which has gone through 19 editions in Portuguese and 4 in English. Manuela Barbosa, with a degree in pharmacy from the Universidade do Porto, is a specialist in the technology of milk and milk-derived products. She is the co-author with Fernando Vieira de Sá of O leite e os seus produtos.