Interesting food in Portugal

Pictured here counter clockwise is Sharon Harris (my co-worker and friend whom came with me on this job), Pedro Louro (the Traffic Director at the radio stations we were working at), Luis Costa (IT at the stations) and myself.

As you can well imagine, the Portuguese eat a little different than us Americans. We found that wine was always served with lunch. Lunch breaks normally lasted a minimum of three hours. Two of the three days we worked there we returned from lunch at 5pm.

Sharon and myself both found one Portuguese wine we really liked. 'Green Wine,' known as Vinho verde is a unique Portuguese wine. It comes from Portugal's Northwest. The wine isn't actually green. It's referred to as green (verde) because it is a young wine - as in green, not-quite-ripe fruit. This is a simple wine. It is also carbonated so it's bubbly. It was very good and refreshing. Especially since the temps soared into the high 90's and there's little air conditioning there.

As you can see in the photo above there is a iced champagne bucket with Vinho Verde in it. This was taken at lunch on Friday at a seafood restaurant.

They give you bibs if you want...of course I want. Somehow my bib fell into my purse and ended up here in the states.
This is some of the food we ate. Pictured here are what we would call "barnacles". They were very salty and tasted, in their words, like the sea. We also ate lobster brains (that's the stuff in the dish...we spread it on bread) and oysters on the half shell, clams and shrimp. Interesting to say the least.