Maria’s Portuguese Table has been picked up for nationwide distribution with PBS. The series takes viewers on a journey to discover the influence of Portuguese cuisine throughout the world, and how it has migrated and evolved along with generations of Portuguese immigrants.
The series will be made available to every PBS station starting in June. The presenting station for the series is WSBE Rhode Island PBS.
The first season of the show, eight 30-minute episodes, follows Lawton from the Azorean islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, to Portuguese communities across the United States.
Half of the inaugural season was shot on the island of Sao Miguel, Azores, and features the capital city of Ponta Delgada as well as many small, coastal villages throughout the island. The other half of the season takes viewers to both the East and West coasts of the United States, where Lawton finds Portuguese influences.
Portuguese cooking series to be broadcast across USA
A series on Portuguese cuisine is to be shown across the USA. The first series is in English about Portuguese cooking Maria s Portuguese Table , was chosen for the national programming of the public station PBS, which will allow it to reach hundreds of millions of people. Chef Maria Lawton emigrated to the US with her family when she was 6 years old. In 2014, she published a best-selling cookbook on Azorean cuisine, which opened the doors to a TV series. Lusa