Tripas à moda do Porto or dobrada à moda do Porto in

Portuguese cuisine Portuguese cuisine () consists of the traditions and practices of cooking in Portugal. The oldest known book on Portuguese cuisine, entitled ''Livro de Cozinha da Infanta D. Maria de Portugal'', from the 16th century, describes many popular dish ...

is a dish of beef stomach made with

tripe Tripe is a type of edible lining from the stomachs of various farm animals. Most tripe is from cattle and sheep. Types Beef Beef tripe is made from the muscle wall (the interior mucosal lining is removed) of a cow's stomach chambers: th ...

with white beans, carrots and rice. It is considered the traditional dish of the city of

Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...

, in Portugal, and widely known across the entire country, where it is also simply called dobrada.

History

It is said that in 1415 the dish was created in

where the shipyard of Lordelo do Ouro was located. The ships and boats being secretly built there would take the Portuguese to Ceuta and, later, to the epic of the

Portuguese Discoveries Portuguese maritime explorations resulted in numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese on journeys during the 15th and 16th centuries. Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European exploration, chronicling and mapp ...

. Many and varied were the rumors about this achievement: some said the boats were destined to transport the Infanta D. Helena to England, where she would later marry; others said it was to take King D. João I to Jerusalem to visit the

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; but there were still those who said that the armada was intended to lead the Infantes D. Pedro and D. Henrique to Naples, to marry. It was then that

Infante D. Henrique Princy Henry of Portugal, Duke of Viseu ( Portuguese: ''Infante Dom Henrique''; 4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator (), was a Portuguese prince and a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese ...

unexpectedly showed up at Porto to check on the progress of the work at the shipyard. Even though he was satisfied with the work done, he thought more could have been done, and confided in Master Vaz, the faithful foreman of the construction, the secret and true reasons that were at its origin: the conquest of Ceuta. He asked everyone involved for more commitment and sacrifice and, in turn, Master Vaz assured the Infante that they would do the same as they had done some thirty years before during the war with Castile. The inhabitants would provide the boats with everything they had in the city, offering all the clean meat to those who would sail to the African coast, and would be left with only the innards of the animals, the guts. When hunger came, they did so, creating a very poor dish, consisting only of tripe and dark bread. But the people of Porto didn't have to suffer, for they invented a way to cook their tripe and this sacrifice earned them the nickname "tripeiros" (tripe eaters).

In popular culture

Dobrada à moda do Porto was the theme of a poem written by

Álvaro de Campos Álvaro de Campos (; October 15, 1890 – November 30, 1935) was one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's various heteronyms, with a reputation for a powerful and angry style of writing. This ''alter ego'' is recounted to have been born in Tavira, Po ...

, one of the poet

Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (; ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th c ...

's various heteronyms, and titled ''Dobrada à moda do Porto''.Álvaro de Campos, DOBRADA À MODA DO PORTO (Arquivo Pessoa) http://arquivopessoa.net/textos/2201

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History

In popular culture

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