MEMORY SERVES

The food memory: Bacalhau

Being from a Portuguese Catholic background, religious holidays like Easter and Christmas were of particular significance for Freddie growing up in Johannesburg. “Both my parents – my dad Tony and my late mother Elena – were born in Mozambique,” says Freddie. “My mother’s father had a bakery there and over Easter he’d bake lots of special pastries and sell painted, hard-boiled eggs to his customers.” While Easter egg hunts weren’t really a big thing for Freddie and his brothers Hugo and Nuno, sitdown meals with extended family were a great tradition.