João Rodrigues, founder Projecto Matéria
"The greatest wealth of any people or culture is people
Ricardo Pereira's connection to sausages and smoked meat is not familiar, nor is it old.
The name Jacinto runs, word of mouth, around the world. All because of the quality of the product maintained by this family in Apúlia, a fishing village in the municipality of Esposende, namely by Sérgio Ribeiro, son of José Jacinto who, in 1976 - “was in his early twenties” - started this associated activity to the meat trade.
Our focus are the producers that are passionately committed with what they do. They are the keepers of the land, well fare and knowledge. They are the ones who will make all of this endure through time.
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.
“Sustainable Edible Gardens.” Here is the purpose of Ervas Finas, a company created in 2005 in the village of Fonteita, within the municipality of Vila Real. The mentor is Graça Saraiva who, since the 1990s, has accumulated experience and knowledge to add flavour to the dishes of chefs and other restaurants, always with an emphasis on sustainability, a word she prefers to see “deconstructed”, to make room for actions that all of us we must have daily, to contribute to the balance of the terrestrial ecosystem.