Maria's Cookbook

I met pollo al limone — chicken limone — in a tiny side-street restaurant in Rome, one of those places...

Açorda de marisco is one of those dishes that instantly takes me back to my grandmother’s table in Portugal: a...

This is the garlic bread of my childhood — not slices under broiled butter, but a whole rustic loaf hollowed...

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

Muamba de galinha is Angola’s most famous dish, and one bite explains its reputation: chicken braised in red palm oil...