There are recipes that require a shopping list a mile long. This is not one of them. Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato is Portuguese cooking at its most gloriously uncomplicated. Fresh clams, good olive oil, garlic, white wine, cilantro, lemon, and a little patience. That's about it. And yet somehow, when those clams hit the hot olive oil and garlic, the shells open into a pool of wine-infused, briny, garlicky goodness that makes you question why you ever bothered making anything more c

There are certain dishes that instantly transport me back to Portugal. The smell of fresh bread drifting out of a bakery. Sardines sizzling over charcoal on a summer afternoon. And a steaming pot of arroz de marisco sitting in the middle of the table with everyone armed with nothing more than a spoon and a very healthy appetite. If you've never had Portuguese seafood rice before, don't picture paella. And don't picture risotto. Arroz de marisco lives somewhere in between. The