Salt cod ( bacalhau ) and red wine With the approach of Holy Week ( Semana Santa ), Brazilians' culinary thoughts turn primarily to ...

One of the most beautiful words in the Portuguese language is beijo . Pronounced something like BAY-zhoo, it means kiss. Perhaps what give...

Here in the Southern Hemisphere we've just passed the equinox and autumn is upon us. In certain parts of Brazil that doesn't reall...

Every year since 1995, the best books, worldwide, about food and gastronomy have been honored at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The 2...

There's dial-a-ride, dial-a-cab, dial-a-pizza, dial-a-forecast, even dial-a-dietician. So why shouldn't there be dial-a-bag-of-pop...

It's commonly known that corn (or maize) was first cultivated for food by native American Indians centuries before the arrival of Euro...

Call it the "blame-it-on-the-neighbors" school of recipe naming. It seems that in many cultures a hotchpotch recipe, in which a ...