Maria's Cookbook

Baba de camelo — “camel drool” — wins the prize for Portugal’s least appetizing name attached to one of its...

Picadinho — “little chopped pieces” — is tavern food from the old school: small cubes of beef simmered with wine,...

No Portuguese Christmas table is complete without aletria: fine vermicelli cooked in sweet, lemon-and-cinnamon milk until it becomes a creamy...

Poland takes mushrooms seriously — foraging is practically a national sport — and zupa grzybowa, the traditional mushroom soup, is...

Bacalhau à Zé do Pipo is comfort food with a pedigree: flaky salt cod under golden mayonnaise, ringed by piped...