Maria's Cookbook

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

My husband ordered bochechas de porco at a tiny tasca outside Porto on our last trip back, mostly because he...

If rissóis de carne are the workhorses of the Portuguese party table, rissóis de camarão are the aristocrats: the same...

Toucinho do Céu — “bacon from heaven” — wins the prize for most alarming name in the Portuguese dessert canon,...

This is the soup with the story, and in this house the story is half the reason we make it....