This activity aimed at promoting Portuguese culture within the international student population, as well as providing them with a few hours of fun while cooking and trying typical Portuguese dishes.
The participants learned how to make three different traditional Portuguese dishes: pastéis de bacalhau (codfish cakes), carne de porco à alentejana (fried pork, potatoes and clams, a typical dish from Alentejo) and the world famous pastel de nata (Portuguese egg custard tarts).
The workshop was promoted on our Facebook and Instagram pages (on Instagram via instastories) a couple of days before with the description of the activity and a list of ingredients, so that anyone who wished to join would have time to plan a supermarket trip to buy anything they needed. A day later, the detailed instructions were revealed on our Instagram stories. On the last day, a video in the form of IGTV was posted on our Instagram page, where an ESN Coimbra member cooked all of the recipes step by step.