Mercado do Bolhão

The Life and Possible Death of a Market

Authors

  • Dawn Starin Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28112

Keywords:

the Mercado do Bolhão, Porto, markets, interviews, food retailing, portugal, social history, food and culture, culinary heritage

Abstract

Provides a history of the the Mercado do Bolhão, the market in Portugal's second largest city, Porto which was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 2006. Since publication of this paper the market's future was temporarily in limbo but funding was secured for extensive renovations which took place over 4 years, and it was re-opened in 2022. The article includes many illustrations of the old facility and its stalls. 

Author Biography

  • Dawn Starin, Independent Scholar

    Dawn Starin is an anthropologist and honorary research associate at UCL, London. She has spent decades studying and writing about the people and the wildlife of Africa and Asia.

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Published

2017-01-01

Issue

PPC 107 (2017)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Starin, Dawn. 2017. “Mercado Do Bolhão: The Life and Possible Death of a Market”. Petits Propos Culinaires, January, 98-107. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28112.