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Oh man, had to call the crisis center. >> anthony: portugal, sandwiched between spain and the atlantic ocean, and tiny as countries go, has had an outsized impact on the world. during the age of discovery the portuguese they went to sea in great numbers, gained fame as navigators, ship builders, explorers. they conquered a large part of the world. their empire stretching from brazil to africa to the east indies. the city of oporto is a reflection and a creation of that relationship with the sea. a lot has changed since i was

Of rustic portuguese soul food. >> jose: so it's all little small pieces of meat, usually the bony part, the tradition comes, they cannot scrap no bones and they need to use every single piece. they boil the bones out then they finish with the blood so. blood and bread. >> anthony: blood and bread? mm, beautiful. so good. >> jose: let's go to the cozido i'm going to show you the -- you should eat. ♪ >> anthony: the main event cozido, a glorious stew of seemingly every last part of the pig. >> jose: i'm going to give you some of the pernil that is the snout meat. spare ribs. >> anthony: nothi...

Now it's kind of funny, francesinha, which translates as little french girl, but i understand she's not so little. >> all: no! >> sofia: it's your first time? francesinha? >> anthony: it is. >> joanna: really? >> anthony: you have this look on your face like you look worried. >> joanna: good luck. >> anthony: it's going to be okay right? woah, here we go. good lord, look at that thing. is there a vegetable in there? >> sofia: only meat. >> anthony: oh, my god, it weighs like a ton. ♪ so it's bread, ham, steak. >> andre: sausage and a bit of linguiça. >> sofia: and then the sauces. many thin...

>> woman in blue dress: [ singing in portuguese ] >> anthony: fado, the national music of portugal. song of longing, heartbreak, saudaude set to music. ♪ >> jose: my good friend, anthony, besides other things, he also sings fado. >> man with blue collar: anthony everybody in portugal thinks that they sing fado. we the portuguese think that the fado is not the perfection, the ability, the fine tuning, its

>> jose: so now they're going to finish up and take all the guts out, the heart, liver. >> anthony: then it's lunch. >> jose: lunch time. >> man in cream sweater: in portugal we used to say if you want to know our body we have to kill a pig because it's absolutely the same. the organs are placed on the same disposition. you see the liver there and the heart, you've got the tongue there too. >> anthony: ah, it's all in a package. all the good stuff. look it's a lung. he's good. >> jose: yeah he really knows what he's doing. >> anthony: i would say a surgeon but he's faster than a surgeon. ♪ g...