Maria's Cookbook

Bolo podre means rotten cake, and I promise that is the least appetizing name for one of the most delicious...

Kohlsuppe — German cabbage soup — has a public relations problem: it sounds austere, and it is anything but. Done...

Almejas con chorizo is the Spanish surf-and-turf logic at its finest: sweet, briny clams steamed open in a broth that...

My husband's family does a big seafood cataplana on holidays, and the first time I served them zarzuela de marisco...

Pão doce — Portuguese sweet bread — is the golden, pillowy loaf that means holidays in the Azores and, through...