My husband's family does a big seafood cataplana on holidays, and the first time I served them zarzuela de marisco...
Read moreDetailsLucas, my resident savory-quality-control officer, once declared this the best pasta he's ever had, then immediately asked why it wasn't...
Read moreDetailsAveiro is the lagoon town up north with the striped moliceiro boats and the candy-colored houses, and its claim to...
Hohlioi boubouristoi — Cretan fried snails — are one of the Mediterranean’s great humble delicacies: snails floured and fried face-down...
Bolo podre means rotten cake, and I promise that is the least appetizing name for one of the most delicious...
Rabanadas are the smell of a Portuguese Christmas Eve: thick slices of day-old bread soaked in warm cinnamon-lemon milk, dipped...
If Porto had to choose one dish to represent it, the francesinha would win by a landslide. It was born...
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