Linguiça Rolls

Linguiça rolls were the first thing we made at The Nook that was going on the menu.

We only did two real revisions. We already knew what we wanted it to taste like. Nostalgic, like the places we went growing up, with a Nook twist.

We treat the bread almost like a pretzel bun, with a little sea salt that we affectionately call our “Sea Salt Sprinkle.” We also add cheese inside the linguiça rolls. The cheese is a mix of Colby, cheddar, and American.

Over the years our linguiça rolls have become a staple in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. A lot of our customers say they are the best around.

We are far too humble to say they are the best around. In fact, we would never say THEY ARE THE BEST AROUND!

They are salty, with a garlicky kick, and they make an amazing base for a breakfast sandwich.

We bake them fresh throughout the day, so you are getting them fresh and hot. Or at least warm.

We go through these things like crazy.

Geeky Fact

Linguiça is a smoked Portuguese pork sausage, heavy on garlic and paprika. The name comes from the Latin lūcānica, a sausage the Romans picked up in Lucania, in southern Italy. Portuguese ships carried it to the Azores, to Brazil, and eventually to the docks and mills of the South Coast.

New Bedford’s Portuguese community started with the whaling ships, which stopped in the Azores and came home with new crews. Fall River’s textile mills brought the next wave. After the Capelinhos volcano erupted on Faial in 1957, another generation of Azoreans settled here. Fall River now has the largest Portuguese population in the country, and New Bedford is right behind it. Around here, New Bedford tends to say linguiça and Fall River tends to say chouriço. Same family of sausage. Different hometown. Chouriço is often made a little spicier, with a stronger flavor. A lot of people say linguiça is the Temu chorizo. We refute that here at The Nook.

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