If Portugal had to choose one soup to represent it before the world, caldo verde would win unopposed: silky potato broth, ribbons of greens sliced almost hair-thin, a few slices of chouriço, and a...

Bacalhau à Gomes de Sá is the aristocrat of the thousand cod recipes — and one of the few with a birth certificate: created by José Luís Gomes de Sá, a cod merchant’s son,...

Migas alentejanas are the Alentejo’s answer to stuffing, polenta and Yorkshire pudding all at once: day-old bread soaked and slowly rolled in a pan with garlic and paprika-rich pork fat until it forms a...

Rizogalo is Greece’s entry in the great Mediterranean rice-pudding family — and readers of my Portuguese arroz doce will recognize a beloved cousin: creamy short-grain rice in sweet milk, perfumed here with vanilla and...

Paella needs no introduction, but it deserves an honest one: the Valencian rice masterpiece is less about a rigid ingredient list and more about technique — the sofrito base, the unstirred rice, and the...

Pan con tomate — Spanish tomato toast — is Catalonia’s masterclass in doing almost nothing, perfectly: good bread toasted, rubbed with garlic, painted with ripe grated tomato, and finished with olive oil and salt....

Toucinho do Céu — “bacon from heaven” — wins the prize for most alarming name in the Portuguese dessert canon, and delivers one of its most luxurious cakes: dense, moist almond and egg-yolk richness...

Tuna and spinach quiche is the sturdier, greener sibling of my plain tuna quiche (also on the site): the same silky custard logic, now layered with wilted spinach and a two-cheese blend of Gruyère...

These are pork chops done the bifana way: marinated in white wine, garlic, paprika and lemon — the same soulful marinade behind Lisbon’s famous bifana sandwich — then pan-fried hot and fast until golden...

Pão doce — Portuguese sweet bread — is the golden, pillowy loaf that means holidays in the Azores and, through Azorean emigration, in half the bakeries of New England (where “Portuguese sweet bread” needs...