The Alentejo is sheep country, rolling and golden and about as far from the green mountains of Tras-os-Montes as you...
Read moreDetailsEvery Portuguese seaside town has some version of a grill going within sight of the water, and squid is one...
Read moreDetailsA friend from Turin served this to us at a dinner party years ago and I remember being confused before...
Read moreDetailsMy mother only brought out her clay púcara for two kinds of days: baptisms, and the Sunday my father's family...
Read moreDetailsThe name means the imam fainted, and depending on who is telling the story, he either passed out from the...
Read moreDetailsMy avó grew up not far from Mirandela, and alheira was the smell of her kitchen more than any other...
Read moreDetailsEvery year around the end of June my husband drags the grill out from the garage like it is a...
Read moreDetailsMy mother-in-law is from a village not far from Coimbra, and the first time I sat at her table for...
Read moreDetailsI did not grow up eating espetada. My roots are Trans-os-Montes on one side and Sao Miguel in the Azores...
Read moreDetailsI came to freekeh embarrassingly late, considering how much time I spend cooking with grains, but once I got my...
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