Lisbon

Lisbon is a city where you can eat extremely well and lscas constitute another typical dish of the Lisbon at reasonable prices. Cod is the Portuguese dish par area, this includes liver — cut into fine slices and excellence. It must be added that the cod is always macerated in white wine and vinegar — fried with ? top quality, being specially cured to give it an un- melt and garnished with boiled potatoes. mistakably pleasant taste. it is usually eaten cooked The exquisite sardines, grilled and accompanied by along with potatoes and oil and roasted with boiled potatoes are popular in Lisbon where there is ' potatoes, onions, garlic and olives in its more authen- also fish of the quality of red mullet, sole, hake, and tic version. White wine (vinho verde brancol goes ax- the most varied and tasty shell-fish including crab and cellently with both methods of cooking cod. lobster, barnacles. cookies, scampi and prawns. Another important dish in Lisbon’s gastronomic The local cheeses — fresh or aged — and the magnift- ,7 repertoire is Portuguese stew, with chicken, beef, on cent fruit of Portugal are the best dessert. . chides sausage, pork, potatoes, cabbage, green As for wines, both red and white, young and mature, beans and rice. An old local red wine goes extremely are, in this country, always excellent and not too :79 well with this succulent baroque dish. strong, with a delicious friendly palate.