Maria's Cookbook

Pão doce — Portuguese sweet bread — is the golden, pillowy loaf that means holidays in the Azores and, through...

The cemita poblana is Puebla’s magnificent contribution to the world of sandwiches: a crisp breaded cutlet, creamy avocado, ropes of...

Almejas a la marinera are Galicia’s clams “sailor style”: opened in a sauce of onion, garlic, paprika, wine and tomato,...

Pão com chouriço answers a question Portugal solved long ago: what if bread and smoked sausage were never apart to...

This is the soup-style açorda alentejana — the brothier, lighter cousin of the thick bread stew (my skillet version is...