Human beings come into the world hating bitter tastes. The reason, it is said, is that bitterness is often associated with poison, and our bodies have evolved a reflexive aversion to it. In fact, when our stomach senses a bitter flavor, it immediately reacts — speeding up digestion in an effort to expel the substance as quickly as possible. That’s why bitter foods are actually great appetite stimulants. 

It was to a packed house at the Teatro da Trinidade in 1941, that Josephine Baker – jazz-legend, star of the Follies-Bergère cabaret and Hollywood, civil-rights activist, life-long bisexual, lover of Frida Kahlo and French novelist Collette - made her Lisbon debut – while acting as a wartime spy for the French resistance!