Cookbooks that will make you want to go back to the kitchen
From Portuguese cuisine to vegetarian options, including budget-friendly meals and recipes associated with some of the best-known names in national gastronomy and television, these are some of the books worth having on hand.
Among traditional Portuguese recipes, vegetarian options, budget-friendly meals, and ideas for those seeking a more balanced diet, there are cookbooks that continue to deserve a place on the counter, even at a time when any recipe seems to be just a phone search away. We've gathered some suggestions to help you cook more, try new dishes, and rediscover some of the recipes that are part of our collective memory.
For years, cookbooks were an almost obligatory presence in Portuguese kitchens. They had marked pages, handwritten notes, stains that revealed the most frequently repeated recipes, and in many cases, they were passed down from one generation to the next.
Meanwhile, we have short videos, recipes saved on Instagram, tutorials on TikTok, and thousands of results available with a quick search. Still, there's something about a good cookbook that's hard to replace. It allows you to browse without looking for anything in particular, discover a recipe by chance, better understand the cooking style of the person who wrote it, and create a collection that you return to over the years.
