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Maria's Portuguese Table

New Bedford, Massachusetts

When Maria Lawton was six years old her family emigrated to the United States from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores, a stunning archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Maria documented the cooking and food memories so vital to her childhood, rediscovering her family's traditional recipes and putting them into her first cookbook, Azorean Cooking: From My Table to Yours.

New Bedford, Massachusetts

Season 2 Episode 4 | 27m 24s | CC

Maria's journey circles back to her home community, New Bedford, Massachusetts. There, she cooks fresh scallops, visits the New Bedford Whaling Museum, meets with Jessica Arruda, owner of Tia Maria’s European Café, and attends the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament.

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