Sojourn | Sovereign Luxury Travel Magazine Volume 1 2024
This year, we've dived into the Sovereign portfolio to share What's Hot for 2024, offering luxury holidays for every season. Whether it's a bit of last-minute winter sun, a spring break, summer with the family, or an autumnal break as a couple, we have something for everyone. Why stop at just one Spanish island when it's so easy to visit more than one? Discover the different characters of the Spanish islands with Island-Hopping in Spain. Let us lead you on the path of exploration. And for the foodies, visit Portugal for a culinary lowdown in Tuck into Portuguese Flavours. Learn about the heritage of Portuguese cuisine, cooking methods, and, old-school preservation techniques that have lasted through the ages.
This year, we've dived into the Sovereign portfolio to share What's Hot for 2024, offering luxury holidays for every season. Whether it's a bit of last-minute winter sun, a spring break, summer with the family, or an autumnal break as a couple, we have something for everyone.
Why stop at just one Spanish island when it's so easy to visit more than one? Discover the different characters of the Spanish islands with Island-Hopping in Spain. Let us lead you on the path of exploration.
And for the foodies, visit Portugal for a culinary lowdown in Tuck into Portuguese Flavours. Learn about the heritage of Portuguese cuisine, cooking methods, and, old-school preservation techniques that have lasted through the ages.
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TUCK INTO<br />
Portuguese<br />
Flavours<br />
How well do you know your piri piri from your paprika?<br />
Get prepared for your next luxury holiday in Portugal<br />
with our culinary lowdown.<br />
As one of Europe’s first modern fusion cuisines, Portuguese flavours<br />
always excites us.<br />
The dishes we know today were shaped by the country’s homegrown<br />
explorers who sailed far and wide and returned with flavours and<br />
spices from South America, Africa, and Asia!<br />
Steeped in their peasant roots, Portuguese savoury dishes are hearty<br />
and simple to prepare. They use just a few select ingredients -<br />
namely chicken, rice, salted cod, olives, almonds, and pork - that are<br />
then elevated by spice and from being cooked on hot coals or a grill.<br />
The cooking methods, however, are native to Portugal, such as<br />
braising meat before frying it, or using a mortar and pestle to create<br />
the unique aromatic pastes and spice rubs.<br />
Within the home, you’ll see families still using traditional clay pots<br />
for stews, cast iron skillets for frying, and wood fired pits for grilling.<br />
Clams, meanwhile, are cooked in tin-lined copper pans that<br />
resemble a clam shell known as a cataplana. If you get the chance,<br />
try amêijoas na cataplana!<br />
In the Algarve, the flavourful wine-infused<br />
fish and vegetable stew known as caldeirada is a<br />
popular household dish.<br />
You’ll find plenty of old-school preservation techniques too, from<br />
smoking and salting to brining in olive oil, lard, wine, or vinegar.<br />
Try the national dish of bacalhau - or salted cod. Created before<br />
modern refrigeration, the fish was salted so that it could withstand<br />
long periods of travel. Today it continues to be a cherished dish and<br />
there’s apparently 365 ways of preparing it, so that it never gets old.<br />
A far cry from the British wartime food that we all know, canning<br />
is an esteemed preservation method in Portugal. In fact, it's so<br />
popular that you may stumble across petiscos (tapas) restaurants<br />
specialising in tinned produce!<br />
DID YOU KNOW?<br />
If you’re feeling peckish in the afternoon, then you’re<br />
in luck! Portugal has what’s called a lanche da tarde,<br />
a second lunch, from 4pm to 5.30pm each day!<br />
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