Elisa Augusta made her first sausage at age 12. Today has 88, her own drift of Bisaros pigs, but still dominates the art as very few. 

Mirjam Brouwer-Buil has neither the name nor the typical profile of the Alentejo producer. But this Dutch woman who already speaks Portuguese with a slightly drawn accent, worthy of the region that welcomed her two decades ago, feels at home at Herdade das Coelheirinhas, near Elvas, where she guides us through the herd of almost 300 cows and 225 steers.

The warm colors and sweet aromas of more than six hundred varieties of fruit and vegetables make the property of Ann Kenny and Jean-Paul Brigand the Lugar do Olhar Feliz.

Ricardo Pereira's connection to sausages and smoked meat is not familiar, nor is it old.