Maria's Cookbook

Espécies de São Jorge — Portuguese horseshoe cookies — carry the flavors of one small Azorean island in one small...

Pumpkin and leek soup is the gentler, more aromatic sibling of my pumpkin-potato version: leeks bring a sweet, oniony softness...

Portuguese convent desserts are almost all built from the same short list of ingredients, egg yolks, sugar, sometimes almonds, and...

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

Banana lumpia — better known in the Philippines as turon — is proof that great desserts do not need long...