For The Love Of Port

Short article on Madeira from US Airways magazine...

The recipe for chess pie looks interesting, except for the lack of heavy cream, it looks a lot like "pasteis de nata", my favorite Portuguese dessert:

http://usairwaysmag.com/2007_07/food_edge.php

A good read and the issue of Sercial growing at a higher elevation and able to handle a longer hang time, while remaining drier in style was our recent discussion coming full circle. Mannie is the Madeira maven and I can't wait for his Madeira book.