Salt cod and potatoes

The Portuguese refer to salt cod as their ‘faithful friend’, and famously have a different recipe for every day of the year. It was an obvious choice as a non-perishable food for the three month-long voyages across the Atlantic to Brazil, although why it was so readily adopted by a country with vast supplies of fresh fish has more to do with fashion and religion. Most Brazilian restaurants have at least one bacalhau dish on the menu, and it is often a version of this recipe, created by Gome