What If This Sweetbread Could Talk?
If this Portuguese sweetbread could talk, no doubt it would tell you about the moment it was first perfected in 1963 on the island of “São Miguel” (that’s St. Michael for Americans) in the Azores of Portugal.
And it would tell you how, when it first began its life as a loaf of sweetbread, it was passed around the village to each and every neighbor for them to taste-test… each time getting closer and closer to the final perfected secret balance of specific portions of eggs, milk and butter.
It would describe the many early breakfasts of being perfectly sliced into mouth-watering French toast and drizzled with butter and syrup. It would tell you about the rowdy conversations it overheard while being eaten by the islanders of São Miguel over a fresh cup of coffee.

Emanuela & Eliseu Amaral