About Ati Manel
Ati Manel is, first and foremost, a family story. The name comes from Manel, the great-grandfather of a Portuguese designer who, more than half a century later, inherited the relics of the canning business: notebooks of formulas, lists of recipes, and the records of contacts the great-grandfather kept with producers and fishermen of his time.
The Portuguese canning industry flourished during the First and Second World Wars, and that was when Manel began. Decades later, the great-grandson gathered the archive, organized it, and brought back its period visual identity while preserving the original spirit. He applied the same rigorous attention to his great-grandfather's criteria: raw materials, choice of suppliers, preservation techniques.
From there come the tins in today's collection: sardines in olive oil, mackerel, tuna fillets, octopus, mussels, scallops, velvet crab, squid in their own ink, and smoked pâtés, including the spiced variants with olive oil, lemon, garlic or basil. Recipes made as they have always been made, with no modern flourishes or designer reinventions.
The brand stands for fair trade: the direct relationship with fishermen and producers is the natural continuation of the family practice it inherited. Each tin is, at once, a family piece and a product of the sea.
