Faial Gastronomy

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Although the island faces the sea and received from it various influences over the centuries, the cooking of Faial does not contain any exotic dishes that stray from Azorean traditions.

There are the substantial dishes of linguiça com inhames (sausages and yams), molha de carne (a meat speciality), morcelas de porco (a pork sausage), torresmos de vinha-de-alhos (bacon prepared with wine and garlic), sopas do Espirito Santo (beef broth) and also caldo de peixe (fish soup), caldeirada (fish stew) and polvo guisado com vinho (octopus stewed in wine), accompanied by maize bread and massa sovada (kneaded dough). Lovers of shell-fish will be delighted at the taste of the local lobsters, cavaco, deep-water crabs and delicious arroz de lapas (limpets cooked with rice). The llha and other cheeses produced on Faial, as well as the sweet with the picturesque name of fofas, provide a good close to a meal.