292 pages, 92 cakes, 5+5 illustrations, tens of photos, 10 patisseries, 8 Bola de Berlim sellers, 4 seasons of Castella, 3 essays, several international Pastéis de Nata, a lot of characters of text and 1 saint. The Fabrico Próprio book […]
The January edition of VOGUE is already on newstands, and it has an article about Fabrico Próprio on one of its pages. Thank you to Patrícia Barnabé for telling us “cakes are super VOGUE” (we also think so) and to […]
Fabrico Próprio is today on the 3Ws programme on Rádio Europa, Lisbon 90.4 FM. This daily programme by Paulo Lázaro on to the internet, talks today – at 11h40, 14h50 and 18h50 – about your project. Thank you Paulo for the choice […]
In the November 22nd edition of Visão an article on FP, by Gabriela Lourenço with photos by Miguel Manso (with whom we had a good laugh in, and around, pastelaria Zarzuela in Cais Sodré, that haas some of the best […]
We spent all day in Porto this past Monday, first looking for, and then shooting, tens of cakes for the encyclopaedic section of our book (we are only 5 away from finishing the job). This photo shows almost all of […]
The list of all the cakes we have identified and will feature in the Fabrico Próprio cake is now complete. However, not all the cakes there have a photo, as we haven’t, in our many incursions in pastelarias in the […]
We often get asked how did we thought of starting to think about cakes and their connection to design, and why did we get ourselves in this to the point our initial idea now reaches a dimension we could never […]
Just over a week after the website’s launch, we would like to thank the over 3000 visitors we received from all continents (thank you Google Analytics!), and especially the ones who left comments on the various cakes and on the […]
In London we found, thanks to Bethany, a perfect embassy for Semi-Industrial Portuguese Confectionery. It’s called Leila’s Shop, it’s a café/deli with 3 tables, a counter and a kitchen all in the same room, where breakfast arrives to the table in […]
The main part of the Fabrico Próprio book will consist of the photographic and encyclopaedic record of all the cakes we have identified in Portugal as Portuguese Semi-Industrial Confectionery (see list on the right). For that, we have been working […]
Our project is not about these cakes, for as much as we love them too!
