Arancini are what happens when leftover risotto gets a much more exciting second life: rolled around a cube of melting...
Read moreDetailsCome July, my husband treats our backyard grill the way other people treat a church, and Lucas hovers nearby narrating...
Read moreDetailsPica-pau means woodpecker, which makes perfect sense the first time you watch a table full of people peck at these...
Read moreDetailsEvery Portuguese festa I remember from childhood in Tras-os-Montes had a folding table somewhere in the shade, and on that...
Read moreDetailsEscalivada is proof that some of the best dishes come from doing almost nothing to good ingredients. Eggplant, red peppers,...
Read moreDetailsThis is less a recipe than a reminder, but it is the reminder I need every July when it is...
Read moreDetailsIf the only anchovies you have ever met are the dark, salty, tinned kind melting into a Caesar dressing, boquerones...
Read moreDetailsMy mother's mother grew up on Sao Miguel, in the Azores, in a house close enough to the water that...
Read moreDetailsA friend of mine from Crete introduced me to dakos years ago at a dinner party, and I remember thinking...
Read moreDetailsChaves is about forty minutes from the village where my grandmother grew up in Trás-os-Montes, and every time we visited...
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