Maria's Cookbook

The folar transmontano is the patriarch of the folar family — the rustic, meat-laden Easter bread of Trás-os-Montes, my family’s...

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

By August our garden is embarrassingly overrun with tomatoes and cucumbers, more than any one family should reasonably need, and...

Sopa tarasca is Michoacán in a bowl: a velvety purée of beans and roasted tomato, crowned with crispy tortilla strips...

Salvadoran horchata — horchata de morro — is a different creature from the Mexican rice version you may know: a...