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Originally Posted by spence
My best guess (never having gone to mainland Portugal or the islands) is that what we get around here is more akin to the blah Italian American cuisine so popular around these parts as well...basically Southern Italian inspired hard wheat pasta and too much tomato sauce, dumbed down during the war for a more frugal and straightforward US patron.
-spence
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My inlaws are from st Micheal in the Aszores, so they cook what they grew up on, and it is nasty. They don;t do pasta at all, pasta is not considers Portuguese food at all.