Appetizers

Here is a fact I love pulling out at dinner parties: the English word marmalade comes from marmelada, the Portuguese...

Kibbeh comes in more shapes across the Levant than I could ever catalog here, from torpedo-shaped fried kibbeh to raw...

Salpicão de Vinhais is one of the great cured meats of Trás-os-Montes, a whole pork loin marinated in wine and...

Arancini are what happens when leftover risotto gets a much more exciting second life: rolled around a cube of melting...

Come July, my husband treats our backyard grill the way other people treat a church, and Lucas hovers nearby narrating...

Pica-pau means woodpecker, which makes perfect sense the first time you watch a table full of people peck at these...

Every Portuguese festa I remember from childhood in Tras-os-Montes had a folding table somewhere in the shade, and on that...

Escalivada is proof that some of the best dishes come from doing almost nothing to good ingredients. Eggplant, red peppers,...

This is less a recipe than a reminder, but it is the reminder I need every July when it is...

If the only anchovies you have ever met are the dark, salty, tinned kind melting into a Caesar dressing, boquerones...