Chicken and Fado

Chicken and Fado They eat a lot of roasted chicken with chips in Portugal, once it was a rare food now it is eaten with gusto most days, it is cheap and filling. What sets Portugal apart is Fado, I know of no other country with music that grabs your heartstrings and makes you cry evokes memories of yore, bitter and sweet. I don`t know the origin of Fado but to my ears it has a mysterious Arabic undertone. On TV there is a “Festa” from one of the many villages in the interior of Portugal, the faces are dark brown from the outdoor work, accordion music is played, quick tunes the women sways and the menfolk stay in the background drinking wine. Here the old and the young mingle there is no drunkenness only good humour from the land of harmony.