I already have my Easy Paella Recipe (recipe on the site) for the nights I want the classic rice version,...
Read moreDetailsEvery January, my grandmother's kitchen in Trás-os-Montes smelled like woodsmoke for weeks. That's when the pig was slaughtered and the...
Read moreDetailsThe Alentejo is sheep country, rolling and golden and about as far from the green mountains of Tras-os-Montes as you...
Peinirli are Greece’s cheese boats: soft yeasted dough shaped into open vessels, loaded with molten kasseri or mozzarella and feta,...
My mother's mother grew up on Sao Miguel, in the Azores, in a house close enough to the water that...
Caçoila (say it “kah-SOY-lah”) is the Azores’ great slow-cooked pork — and thanks to Azorean emigration, it is as famous...
Camarones a la veracruzana — Shrimp Veracruz — captures the story of Veracruz on one plate: Mexican tomatoes and chilies...
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