Bread

We had bolo do caco wrapped in a paper napkin from a street stall in Funchal, still hot enough that...

Pão doce — Portuguese sweet bread — is the golden, pillowy loaf that means holidays in the Azores and, through...

Papos secos are the bread of Portuguese daily life: the crusty, cloud-crumbed rolls that carry breakfast butter, lunchtime bifanas and...

Pão com chouriço answers a question Portugal solved long ago: what if bread and smoked sausage were never apart to...

Broa de milho is the bread of rural Portugal: a dense, crusty corn loaf with a slightly sweet, nutty crumb,...

The folar transmontano is the patriarch of the folar family — the rustic, meat-laden Easter bread of Trás-os-Montes, my family’s...

Folar de Valpaços is the folar de Chaves’ equally proud neighbor — so proud, in fact, that it earned Protected...

Every year in Chaves, mothers and grandmothers gather around the masseira — the great wooden kneading tray — to make...