Maria's Cookbook

Moroccan cooking has a habit of doing something my grandmother's generation in the Azores would have recognized instantly: using what's...

The name means the imam fainted, and depending on who is telling the story, he either passed out from the...

Almejas con chorizo is the Spanish surf-and-turf logic at its finest: sweet, briny clams steamed open in a broth that...

Pastitsio is what happens when Greece and Italy sit down at the same table and Greece insists on adding cinnamon,...

Every January, my grandmother's kitchen in Trás-os-Montes smelled like woodsmoke for weeks. That's when the pig was slaughtered and the...