If you have ever driven the highway south through the Bairrada region toward Coimbra, you already know the smell I...
Read moreDetailsMy avo was a São Miguel girl through and through, not from Terceira, and she would have been the first...
Read moreDetailsIf you have only ever had port wine in a small glass after Thanksgiving dinner, next to the pumpkin pie,...
Chaves is about forty minutes from the village where my grandmother grew up in Trás-os-Montes, and every time we visited...
Camarão à guilho is Portugal’s take on garlicky shrimp — cousin to the Spanish gambas al ajillo, but with our...
This beet and carrot soup is the most photogenic member of the Portuguese soup rotation: ruby-red, silky smooth, and built...
Açorda de marisco is one of those dishes that instantly takes me back to my grandmother’s table in Portugal: a...
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