1950 -

Publications and other curiosities about Portuguese gastronomy

This will always be a constantly evolving project. Every day we discover a new item and add to it. This list is organised chronologically, and it is not always possible to determine the date of each publication. In these cases, we've chosen to list in the time frame we consider most likely.

In some cases we have a copy of the publication, which we digitise and make the images available. In other cases, we link to scans on other websites.

We hope you enjoy it and if you can contribute in any way to enriching this page, we'd be very grateful.

1951
Cooks' Treasure

Treasure of the Cooks, a book of Mirene

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2nd and 3rd Edition

2nd Edition
Publisher: Livraria Simões Lopes by Manuel Barreira Porto

"The first edition of Arte de Bem Saborear sold out quickly. Our bold initiative to launch a magnificent and extraordinary culinary encyclopaedia on the market, with a very luxurious presentation that matches, if not surpasses, the best of what has been published abroad, was a success and the public responded with encouraging support. We were blown away. And so we promised ourselves to do better.

We promised and, as always, we delivered! This 2nd edition of Arte de Bem Saborear, expanded with new recipes and new illustrations, proves it". - taken from the Editor's Note to the 2nd edition.

1952
The Practical Cook: an interesting cookery guide within everyone's reach

The Practical Cook, a book by Little Mary

Editorial Minerva 1st edition 1952
Another edition D.L. 1975

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1953
Quick cooking, practical recipes

Marilita 1953

1ST EDITION: QUICK COOKERY. COOKING, SWEETS, DRINKS. RECEITAS PRÁTICAS - Marilita, Porto, Livraria Simões Lopes de Manuel Barreira Editor, [n.d.].

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(n.d.)
The 500 best recipes for cooking

Olga Albuquerque Lisbon. Universal Literary Company

1953
The pleasure of the table: practical recipes taught by images and ultra-modern processes

Olga Albuquerque Porto. Figueirinhas 1953

1953
My sweet book.

AREAL, Maria Olímpia. My sweets book. (Within reach of everyone) Selected and tried recipes. Oporto. Author's edition, July 1953.
Composed and printed at Tipografia Modesta R. Caldeireiros 43, Porto

Engravings and polychromy of the cover by Simão Guimarães, Filhos Lda

Other books by the author:
My cookery bookselected and tried recipes"
"Economical Meals, within everyone's reach"

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July 1953 nº246

1953
ABC OF COOKERY. Cookery and Cakes Correspondence Course.

ABC OF KITCHEN" - 7 vols. by Iréne Vizi.
Publisher: Culinary Institute. Dim: 22×16 cm.

Other editions:
3rd edition (D.L. 1955) nos. 1,2, 5 and 6
4th edition (D.L. 1956) nos. 1-6
5th edition (D.L. 1956) nos. 1-6
6th edition (D.L. 1956) nos. 1-6

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1953
Family Sweets. Selected and Tried Recipes

AREAL (Maria Olímpia)
Family Sweets. Selected and Experimented Recipes. Porto: Edições Asa, 1953.

1st edition July 1953
2nd edition December 1959
3rd edition December 1960

1955
How to remove Luças sardines

Matosinhos : Lucas Brand , [ D. L. 1955 ) 

1955
The Best Cooking Recipes

ALVES, Libânia de Sousa. The best cookery recipes.[s.l.]: Author's edition, [1955].

1955
Selected sweets

ALVES, Libânia de Sousa. Selected sweets. Porto: Author's edition, [1955]. Vera Cruz Collection 3

1956

ALVES, Libânia de Sousa. The best natural cooking recipes. [s.l.]: Author's edition, [1956]. Vera Cruz Collection 9

1956
Almonds in homemade sweets

Porto: Duarte Carlos Cabral

1956 - 1965

MARIA, Rosa. 100 ways... Porto: Livraria Civilização, 1956 - 1965

1957
What and how to eat

Collection: Eutrophological Naturism Library Author: José Castro Publisher: Natura, Lisbon

1959
Cookbook "How to cook tinned Portuguese sardines "

Published by the Portuguese Institute of Canned Fish

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1959
The art of cooking in Portugal: a Portuguese gastronomic guide

Lisbon.

1960
Tinned fruit and vegetables. Home preparation.

National Fruit Board 1960. Agronomist Maria Emília Abreu Semedo. Illustrations by Fred Kradolfer. Photo by Artur Pastor.

Text based on lessons from Maria Emília Abreu Semedo's 1956 practical course on canning fruit and vegetables

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1962
Portuguese world cuisine

M.A.M. [collective pseud. of Maria Adelina Monteiro Grillo and Margarida Futscher Pereira]

Portuguese world cuisine. Porto: Livr. Tavares Martins, 1962

1966
The art of Royal cuisine

Lisbon. João Machado da Conceição & Cª

Another edition in 1968

1973
Regional Portuguese cuisine

Maria Odette Cortes Valente. Livraria Almedina Coimbra, 1973

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1978
Selected Recipes

MODESTO, Maria de Lurdes. Selected recipes. Lisbon: Verbo, 1978.

1979
 Traditional Portuguese cuisine

 Traditional Portuguese Cuisine from Maria de Lourdes Modesto

As cookery was not seen as particularly important at the beginning of the 20th century from the point of view of gaining social notoriety, both women and men resorted to anagrams and pseudonyms to hide their real names. Thus, Agarena de Leon is an anagram of Helena de Aragãowhile Auronanda is the pseudonym of Aurora Jardim Aranha, Isalita The Maria Isabel Campos Henriques, Mirene The Maria Irene Andrade Braga da Silva Teixeira e Francine Dupré, that of Maria de Lurdes Modesto who, in the meantime, abandoned it, following the growing interest and popularity that the public was giving it.

in Women's cookery: the first recipe books written by Portuguese women. Isabel M. R. Mendes Drumond Braga

1992
4 Seasons at Casa da Comida

 4 Seasons at Casa da Comida - Cooking in Portugal, by Jorge Vale

1st Edition Círculo de Leitores

1998
Portuguese cookery books

Portuguese cookery books. Co-ordination and bibliographical research by Manuela Rego. Lisbon: National Library, 1998.

The most complete and esteemed catalogue of Portuguese cookery books, it makes a remarkable contribution to the study and dissemination of the ninth art in Portugal, listing over a thousand specimens, many of which are unknown to the general public and absent from other catalogues of the same kind. Illustrated in black and colour with reproductions of dozens of book frontispieces and some menus. With an extensive onomastic index.

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