Farta Issue 4 – Rissol

Farta is a beautiful magazines, that aims to show the value of traditional Portuguese dishes. A hybrid between a magazine and an artistic platform, the project takes on Portuguese recipes and culinary traditions that are widely consumed but less celebrated; the first edition is all about francesinha.

Issue 4: Rissol

It is displayed in snack bars and pastry shops, alongside bread in bakeries, in convents, and on the menus of restaurants with white linen tablecloths. Few recipes are as ubiquitous in Portugal as the rissol, the beloved fried snack that we proudly smear on our fingers in the morning, accompanied by a coffee, that we eat with rice for lunch, or that helps us stave off hunger in the restaurant before dinner arrives.

Geometric, golden, crispy. A semicircle that always seems to want to be complete, as if half of it were missing. But the rissol is whole in its essence. Light in size, heavy in heritage, filled with stories that extend beyond the kitchen. A testament to our culinary identity, to tradition that endures and reinvents itself.

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