Portugal is the champion of alcoholic beverage consumption and this is also reflected in production: we are the 5th largest producer in Europe. You could even say that drinking alcohol is cultural: “will you have another glass? It’s just one more”. But this is a scourge that devastates families and clogs the NHS. Are we really willing to suffer for a moment of pleasure?
Alcohol is accepted by society and its consumption even seems to be encouraged. But will this change? Studies indicate that wine consumption is decreasing, but will there be another drink to replace it?
Tiago Pereira Santos and Matilde Fieschi
With two or three tricks, everyone can make the best scrambled eggs in the world, the best French fries or the best steak. Sometimes, the difference between sublime food and bad food is just the amount of butter, the variety of potato or when we add salt to the steak.
Ricardo Dias Felner, journalist and gastronomic critic, is The Man Who Ate Everything and tells you everything about cooking and restaurants in Expresso’s tastiest podcast.
He started as a journalist at Público, where for 11 years he wrote about crime, justice, immigration and politics. He was the director of Time Out magazine and, nowadays, regularly collaborates with several publications, including Expresso, where he has written reports on some of the country’s most emblematic foods, from cod to barbecue chicken.
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