Popular versus traditional: an antithesis

"You keep using that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means.” Popular is not necessarily traditional, and not all habits are worthy to be persevered.

This is, believe it or not, a “francesinha”. A now “traditional and popular” plate in northern Portugal, born by murdering the idea of croquet monsieur.

Here on this blog, I started a specific discussion on the need for writers to reclaim the power of the gastronomic narrative.

This is because, while many food writers have their gaze firmly on the chefs, …