Weird Foods of Portugal:Adventures of an Expat
The beautifully-written stories overflow with the unexpected.
Porto’s iconic Casa da Música becomes the site of a near cafeteria fist-fight when the bald-headed tuba player roars disdain for public art. The seamy side of town where conniving real estate agents and attorney lock the author in a lease, is where she learns she still has potential as a prostitute.
She picks up language tips from neighborhood dogs, learns what to eat, and what to consider carefully before eating, discovers unexpected side effects to the country’s unusual physiotherapy clinics, and lolls on steamy Sundays poolside at a posh Foz residence. Communes and courage are the topics of discussion with renowned plastics artist, Joana Vasconcelos. Fresh insights on America and Portugal are served up in an intimate, conversational style, and the adventures are delicious, and satisfying.
Available in Audiobook, Large Print paperback, and eBook through independent retailers, and distributors worldwide.
Where I’m Going with this Poem:
(Also available in European Portuguese.)
“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, Best-selling Author, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, The Village of the Lost Souls.
“ richly detailed childhood experiences, moving through adolescence, ultimately manifesting in adulthood… 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:
This is a project in the works to collect traditional, plant-based recipes.
If you would like to participate by sharing your recipe, and the story of the person who passed the recipe onto you, please do!
Edited by former vegetarian restauranteur (The Catalpa Tree Cafe, Cafe Andrea,) Wendy Lee Hermance, with contributors Carol Helstosky, PhD., Louise O. Vasvari, PhD., and Jill Nussinow, MS, RD.
The recipe collector form, explains more about the project.
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.
