Essays

Architecture critic Ana Vaz Milheiro guides us through a series of “Devoured Houses” and shows us – from Hansel and Gretel’s house to the marzipan creations by Leonardo da Vinci and the failed Casa da Música chocolate miniatures by Pedro Bandeira and André Tavares – the relations between confectionery and Architecture. Contemporary art curator Nuno Sacramento returns to his roots; travelling from Pemba to Ponta do Ouro, he makes a meticulous record of patisseries in Mozambique, as well as the Portuguese cakes he finds in them. David Lops Ramos, journalist and food critic at the Público newspaper, speaks about the history of a nation that surrenders to all things sweet.