I am Ana, I’m a Lisbon based food writer, and recipe creator. My relationship with food and cooking started early in life. You know the cliché: ‘I was inspired by my grandmother’? That is my truth. She was a great cook and a reference to me, always ready to nurture us with her delicious cooking, and love!

My relationship with Portugal is as long-lived. When I was 4 years old, my family relocated to Viseu in central Portugal. Although eventually we ended up returning to Brazil, Portuguese food and the recipes my mother learned from our neighbours and friends here were always present at our table. As well as that, my father has lived here for the last 25 years, so I never lost my connection to Portugal and would often come here for short periods of time. 

Jump forward to 2018, I moved to Portugal once more to get my undergraduate degree in English and French Language and Culture, and since then I never left the country.  I’ve worked in a few cafés, restaurants in the past, both inside and outside of the kitchen and I always wanted to go back to doing something with food someday. Moving here was the final push I needed!