quarta-feira, junho 18, 2008

Fish and Chips

“In truth, “Continentals” invented the dish (fish and chips). In the seventeenth century Sephardic Jews brought their pescado frito, fried fish, to Holland and England; carried east by Portuguese missionaries, the same dish would became Japanese tempura.
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Jewish merchants in Soho were the first to combine chipped potatoes with fried fish, and it is generally agreed that one Joseph Malin opened the prototypical fish and chip shop in London’s Old Ford Road in the 1860.”
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Trecho retirado da página 71 de “Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood” de Taras Grescoe, disponível na Amazon.
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É incrível como a cultura portuguesa se difundiu pelo mundo, nas mais variadas coisas, até lhes perdemos o rasto.
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