Main dishes

Every January, my grandmother's kitchen in Trás-os-Montes smelled like woodsmoke for weeks. That's when the pig was slaughtered and the...

Youvetsi is the dish I make when I want a one-pot Greek dinner that satisfies both my Portuguese instinct for...

If you have ever driven the highway south through the Bairrada region toward Coimbra, you already know the smell I...

My avo was a São Miguel girl through and through, not from Terceira, and she would have been the first...

My husband has a theory that every region of Portugal is quietly convinced its pork is the best pork, and...

The Alentejo is sheep country, rolling and golden and about as far from the green mountains of Tras-os-Montes as you...

Every Portuguese seaside town has some version of a grill going within sight of the water, and squid is one...

A friend from Turin served this to us at a dinner party years ago and I remember being confused before...

My mother only brought out her clay púcara for two kinds of days: baptisms, and the Sunday my father's family...

The name means the imam fainted, and depending on who is telling the story, he either passed out from the...