The Bland Truth: A Critique of Portuguese Cuisine Portuguese don’t really appreciate critique. Especially not from a foreigner! So here you go, their responses on various social media and my replies. “You clearly don’t understand Portuguese food.” It won’t go on about the reasoning for this question, which will equally be countered if you have an opinion on politics, or even football. On the contrary, on Portuguese food again, I understand it so well that I could probably prepare bacalhau in at ...