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Don't pass the peacock pie: Christmas dinner is not to everyone's taste

I'm keen to have an authentic local yuletide experience in Portugal, but not if it involves tucking into a bowl of rehydrated fish biltong

15 December 2019 - 00:00 By and darrel bristow-bovey

I'm in Lisbon for the next few months and this will be my first European Christmas. Christmas is always a tricky time, happy and sad. It takes you to the past and the past is always melancholy because it has passed, so this year I'm thinking about food instead...

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