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Maria's Portuguese Table

2022 · 2 seasons

A gentle, unhurried cooking show that feels like being welcomed into a family kitchen and hearing stories of home.

Starring
Maria Lawton
Overview
When Maria Lawton was six years old her family emigrated to the United States from the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores, a stunning archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Maria documented the cooking and food memories so vital to her childhood, rediscovering her family's traditional recipes and putting them into her first cookbook, Azorean Cooking: From My Table to Yours.

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    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • family
    • immigration
    • identity
    Places
    None
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    family
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension0
    Darkness0
    Complexity1
    Emotional weight3

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    Starring
    Maria Lawton
    Length
    2 seasons, 16 episodes, 27 min each
    Network
    PBS, KQED
    Languages
    English, Portuguese

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