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Sad to announce that after 40+ years, 3 great children, 3 adorable grandchildren, my wife & I may have to call it quits. For tonight I decided to put both carrots & a can of crushed tomatoes into the kale soup I made. Both are fine in Portuguese kale soup, but anathema in . . .1/
Martha's Vineyard style kale soup. You may be forgiven, if you're not from the area, for not knowing that Martha's Vineyard has 5 major heritages: Wampanoag, Anglo, African American, Portuguese (Azores) & "summer people". The Portuguese influence is large. @bijancbayne 2/
If you walk through any Island cemetery & look at the names on the headstones from 100 years ago you'll see lots of Silva's, Silvia's, DaSilva's, DaSilvia's, Bettencourt's & DeBettencourt's — with varying capitalizations. Their descendants are prominent Vineyarders today. 3/
[The strong Portuguese heritage in southeaster Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard, is probably part of the reason that our large & growing Brazilian community felt comfortable coming here. Many share the same family names as 3rd-generation Vineyarders.] 4/
