FOOD

12 Reasons Why Home Is Where My Portuguese Stomach Is

Traditional dishes I’ve learned to cook from my mother’s recipes

Rui Alves
Published in
12 min readApr 10, 2024

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Portuguese vegetables used in Portuguese traditional‘s cuisine.’
Photo by Syd Wachs on Unsplash

I’ve been around the world many times, but I can say there is no other place on Earth that plays to my tastebuds like my mother’s kitchen here in Portugal.

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Rui Alves
Iberospherical

I'm a language teacher, linguist and published author (who joined the Army and worked for the EU). A publisher, digital ronin, musician and alchemist of sound.