The gastronomy Escalhão is made mainly of farm products.
The pig was the animal that contributed most to the diet of the local population. From sweet sausage and garlic sausage with smoked ham, sausage, sausages, pork cutlets with roasted, various dishes of rabbit, hare and wild boar dishes of beans, grilled cod with potatoes roasted in the embers the delicious turnip greens drizzled with plenty of olive oil which is Escalhão producer. In addition to the tasty meal of green cabbage soup, fish soup with appreciated if the bean soup with garden vegetables, which are part of the diet.
Desserts abound. The cheese from sheep's milk mixed with cow's milk, traditional cookies, compotes, jams, cakes and rice pudding. The olives and honey are food additives that the region is rich. On winter mornings, breakfast can be delicious with bread dipped in olive oil and grilled, not forgetting the famous cookies Escalhão.
