Weird Foods of Portugal:Adventures of an Expat

Each beautifully-written story immerses the reader in the unexpected.

 

In Porto’s iconic Casa da Música the author finds herself head-to-head in the café with the bald-headed tuba player who does not like art. In the seamy neighborhood where her conniving real estate agents and attorney lock her in an unwanted lease, she is mistaken for a prostitute, often. We learn to speak Portuguese from the dogs, what to eat, and what to consider carefully before eating, meet the colorful patients of a drab physiotherapy clinic, attend languid pool days in the posh Foz neighborhood, and discuss courage and communes with renowned plastics artist Joana Vasconcelos’ in her Lisbon atelier.

 

In each adventure the author finds some new understanding of the America she lost, and we are right there along for the ride.

 

Now available in Audiobook, Large Print paperback, and eBook, through independent retailers and distributors worldwide. 

Where I’m Going with this Poem:

 

“Wendy Lee Hermance’s prose and poetry are made of touching and surprising childhood memories – of shriveled apples, old pillows, fallen tree limbs, imaginary radio stations and things so difficult to put into words that we can only glimpse them between the lines of this highly compelling work.”  – Richard Zimler, International Best-selling Author, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, The Village of the Lost Souls.

 “The prose and poetry in Wendy Lee Hermance’s personal narrative comprise a unique memoir beginning with richly detailed childhood experiences, moving through adolescence, ultimately manifesting in adulthood.  “Where I’m Going with this Poem” is a hymn to “this lovely human mess”  that is the speaker’s life, but this is a life filled with a myriad of  experiences, all described with a poet’s empathy and attention to detail reminding us all, as Hermance did in the last poem of the collection, of our capacity to find some things to love.” – Marjory Wentworth, NYT’s Best-selling Author, Out of Wonder.

The Heirloom Meatless Recipes Project:

 

If you have a treasured recipe for plant-based main course, soup, or appetizer passed on to you by an older friend or relative, you are invited to collaborate on a project to collect and preserve traditional plant-based recipes

 

Edited by former vegetarian restauranteur (The Catalpa Tree Cafe, Cafe Andrea,) Wendy Lee Hermance, with contributors Carol HelstoskyPhD., Louise O. Vasvari, PhD., and Jill Nussinow, MS, RD.

It is easy to upload your recipes using the recipe collector form, which explains more about the project. 

Recipe Collector Form

 

What’s That Stuff? A Natural Foods Reference Guide

 

‘”How does one dance a Brazilian cassava?’ 

 

This question and more are answered in this witty little guide to soy foods, grains, legumes, seaweeds and much more. We used it in our retail stores as a training manual.” Diane Markovitz,Tree of Life Distributors.

 

Simple recipes, detailed cooking charts, nutritional data, and surprising back-stories to foods are collected in this concise guide that will answer all those perplexing questions you were afraid to ask. 

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