Menu:
(1) Sopa portuguesa,
(2) Bolinhos de bacalhau;
(3) Salada;
(4) Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá;
(5) Sobremesa Portuguesa; (
6) Café, água, refrigerantes e vinho da casa.
Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá:
Gomes de Sá foi um famoso chefe de cozinha na Cidade
do Porto. Este prato também se chama bacalhau com batatas e cebolas
numa caçoila. Muitos portugueses consideram este o melhor prato de
bacalhau.
Codfish Gomes de Sá Style: Gomes de Sá was a restaurateur in the City of Porto in the North of Portugal. This dish is also called casserole of salt cod with potatoes and onion. Many in Portugal consider this the finest recipe of codfish.
Raffle donors: Daniel Amaral-- Champanhe, Espumante; Luisa Benevides--Vinho Dão; Valdemar Oliveira - Aveleda Branco; Luciano da Silva-- Vinho Dão; Silvia da Silva – Woodbrige Wine;
Comadre Hipólito-- Mantilha bordada; António Melo-- Vinho Freixent (Spanish).
Raffle Helpers: Here is the list of the faithful helpers that sold the tickets for our successful raffle: Gilda Ramos, Otília Rodrigues, Manuel Rodrigues, Virginia Miranda, and Silvia da Silva and Deodete Pacheco. Afonso da Silva controlled the drum and Frederico Pacheco gave the prizes to the winners.
News = Notícias
Our Compadre Louis Vitorino, from Bristol, RI is planning to go to the XXXII International Congress of the Academies of Codfish which will be held in Luanda, Angola next October. Does anybody else want to accompany him?
Our Vice President, Frederico Pacheco, is leading a group of Rotarians from Bristol, RI, during the last week of August, to visit the Island of São Miguel. What a wonderful trip!
New Academies of Codfish. Now there are Academies of Codfish in Ponta Delgada, St. Michael; in Angra, Terceira; and Horta, Faial. In Continental Portugal their number is also increasing: Viseu, and Coimbra.
Portuguese attacked by British racists - 40 British youths beat 6 Portuguese into hospital, shouting: “Go back to where you came from!”
Six Portuguese emigrants were attacked and beaten by a large group of 40 English youths last Friday night in the streets of Wisbech, approximately 30 kilometers from Cambridge. Initial reports suggest the attack was racially motivated. Police were quoted as saying this week it could be one of Britain’s worst such attacks. While a number of surveillance cameras can be found along the street where the attack took place, no arrests had been made a week after the incident. Local newspapers and radio stations claimed the group of British youths could be charged for the crimes of attempted murder and assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm, as four of the six Portuguese were beaten up to such an extent they are still at the North Cambs Hospital, nearly a week later. Video footage revealed that one of the victims was kicked in the head around 30 times. Cambridge Police was further quoted as saying by Portuguese daily” Público”, that the attack is one of the worst to have occurred in England. However, one of the Portuguese victims has said their attackers have since passed them on the streets, laughing and mocking them.
Did you know that Portugal has 3 earthquakes per DAY?
coast of southern Portugal early Tuesday morning. The earthquake, recorded at 06h31, was felt in the Algarve, the Alentejo and as far afield as Lisbon. According to geological experts, effects of the earthquake would have been devastating had it occurred closer to the coastline. The earthquakes epicenter was located 150 kilometers southwest of Sagres. But experts add that there are no indications that more earthquakes will be recorded, saying an after-shock was felt nine minutes later that measured three on the Richter Scale. On average, Portugal records an incredible average of three earthquakes a day, though they are rarely felt. On Sunday, in northern Portugal, an earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter Scale was measured in Miranda do Douro.
Portugal has for the past fortnight been ravaged by what many observers believe to be the country’s worst fires ever.
On Monday, exactly a week after the first fires erupted in central Portugal, the Prime Minister called a national emergency, but refrained from declaring a state of emergency, despite several calls for him to do so. By Thursday, the fires, that have destroyed more than 54,000 hectares of pine and eucalyptus forest, orchards and vineyards, along with many houses in remote towns and villages, had claimed 14 victims. The government gathered this week in an emergency session to declare a "state of public calamity", as scores of wildfires, which have claimed 14 lives during the past week, continued ravaging the country from north to south. On Sunday, Durão Barroso, Prime Minister, described the situation as the country's "worst tragedy in living memory". One fireman was quoted by SIC television as saying that fighting the fire in Oleiros was more frightening than being in the World Trade Center. The fireman, who spent several years as a fireman in New York and was on duty on September 11, said the difference between the two events was, that at the WTC, he knew he still had a way out, while during a fire on Tuesday, he was completely surrounded by flames and thought his death was inevitable.
Air safety Portugal faces 3rd world rating
Portugal
has been given 60 days to bring its abysmal air safety systems at its airports
in line with stringent conditions, or it will relegated to a second category
destination, a title usually reserved for undeveloped or developing countries.
According to what is generally considered the most powerful international
aviation authority, Portugal is not complying with the minimum requirements in
terms of international air safety. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
has handed Portugal a 60-day deadline to rectify its problems or it will lose
its current premium aviation rating.
O nosso Compadre Daniel Amaral que
traz sempre
poemas originais a todas as
nossas Ceias, vai publicar um livro com mais de uma centena de poemas
da sua autoria. O título do livro vai ser: “Pérolas
Poéticas Açorianas”, com o
subtítulo: “Rosário da Saudade”. Inspirado nestes dois
títulos o Compadre Amaral leu-nos na última ceia um soneto dedicado
à sua coletânea de poemas: