Chouriço

Founded in 1988 in a three-car garage by Fernando Benevides, Portugalia Marketplace has grown into a 20,000-square-foot Portuguese specialty food store in Fall River, Massachusetts — a city with one of the largest Portuguese diaspora communities in the United States. Now run by his children Michael and Jennifer, the store stocks over 1,300 Portuguese wines and spirits, a temperature-controlled room for salt cod, a café with Portuguese baked goods, and an extensive deli counter with house sausages including Chouriço Caseiro, Morcela, Chouriço Mouro Transmontano, and Morcela Caseira with Meat. Described by Saveur as America's best Portuguese market.

Casa Guedes is a sandwich counter in Porto's Praça dos Poveiros that has been doing one thing since 1987: roast pork with chouriço on a crusty roll. The pernil is slow-roasted until the fat melts through the meat, sliced thick and piled into a papo-seco with a grilled chouriço split alongside it. Chouriço de carne from the Trás-os-Montes and Beira regions is the standard companion, hot off the grill, its paprika-red fat running into the bread. Casa Guedes has a second branch but the original counter in Praça dos Poveiros is where the queue forms at lunch. There is no printed menu and no decision to make.