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Minho “heart and soul” in Ponte de Lima, Portugal
The Lima valley, in Portugal's northern Minho region, with its ancient towns and Romanesque churches, takes a traveler on a meandering route from the...
In Central Asia, sit down to dinner, Uzbek style
In Uzbekistan, my travel companions and I were welcomed to the table three times a day, and very often to a spread of Uzbek...
AT HOME IN PORTUGAL
In Porto, Portugal, a world of flavor from our pandemic kitchen
Over the past many months, as Tom and I have reminisced about our travels, rather than actually traveling, food memories—and food making—were a constant...
Cooking Portuguese in a townhouse kitchen
From the moment we knocked on the townhouse door, we knew we were in for something special. Welcomed into the reception area-cum-shop, we had...
CULTURE
The way of Port: a passion for the vine in Portugal’s...
"Wine is not about grapes!" exclaimed Alvaro. Our host was oblivious to threatening rain on this steeply pitched hillside above Portugal's Douro River. I...
Deliciously local in West Lisbon
Lisbon's breadbasket is in its western reaches, in the hills and valleys that cradle the Tagus above the capitol and tumble westward in fertile...
