Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I page through a cookbook from Portugal, or look at Portuguese recipes online, I am impressed just how powerful Portugal once was and how it brought to ...

Today’s chefs are incorporating new ideas to prepare the creamy yellow-white sauce of the bakailaoa pil-pilean that is the hallmark of the Basque dish. Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives The Basque ...

One Christmas Eve when I was in elementary school, a heaping pile of buttered spaghetti sat on a platter on the buffet table in my grandmother’s warm, crowded kitchen. Since I was the kid who, to my ...

Like the God of the Old Testament, salt cod goes by many names. The French call it morue, the Italians baccala' and the Portuguese bacalhau. Of course, the fish is the same — Atlantic cod — and the ...

In 1432 a Venetian captain, Pietro Querini, returned home after surviving a terrible shipwreck off the Northern coast of Norway, and described for the first time the stocfisi (dried salt cod) he had ...

Say “salt cod” and some will think of the garlicky pureed brandade de morue of Provence, or perhaps the even punchier, more luscious Venetian version, baccala mantecato. For me, salt cod, or dried ...

Deep in the back streets of Oporto in Portugal I found a tiny shop stacked to the ceiling with salt cod. It was salt cod heaven. I had always thought there was just one kind, but here there were all ...