If you've ever searched for Cozido à Portuguesa, you've probably seen recipes telling you to throw everything into one giant pot. My mom never did. She had three pots going at once. One for the meats. One for the root vegetables. One for the rice. As a kid, I never questioned it. That's just how cozido was made in our house. Looking back now, I realize she wasn't just cooking dinner. She was orchestrating it. The meats slowly simmered together, filling the kitchen with the sm

If Portugal had a national ingredient, it would probably be bacalhau. Which is funny, because cod doesn't even live in Portuguese waters. For centuries, Portuguese fishermen sailed to the cold waters of Newfoundland, Iceland, and Norway, bringing home salted cod that would become one of the country's defining ingredients. Somewhere along the way, we collectively decided one fish simply wasn't enough and created hundreds of ways to prepare it. Some say there are 365 recipes fo