A reader asked for help making a kale soup her late mother-in-law made from her native Portugal. She remembered that back in the ’80s, before kale’s “rediscovery,” it was hard to find. Potatoes and ...

MY PORTUGUESE MOTHER mother had her own way of making sopa de legumes, a creamy vegetable soup I still crave. She’d fill a pot with water and chuck in a halved onion (no dicing required), a whole ...

Thirty-five years after opening his first restaurant, Emeril Lagasse is letting the next generation, his son E.J., lead the ...

Happy 2023! At this point the warmth and magic of the holiday season have passed, days of sunlight are pretty much at their shortest, and it is just cold. Well, there’s a reason January is National ...

I’LL NEVER forget the first bowl of soup I ate in Portugal. It was a blisteringly hot summer day about a decade ago, and my husband and I were visiting Evora, an ancient hill town perched above the ...

Being raised in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City during the '50s and '60s, I never ate kale. It wasn't that I didn't like it, I simply wasn't aware of its existence. It was only after my family ...

Caldo verde is so, so good. It’s exactly the kind of deceptively simple dish that surprises you with the deep, rich flavor it draws out of a few simple ingredients. “Caldo verde” means “green soup,” ...

For decades, vegetarians have looked to global cuisines for inspiration. The pioneer was Anna Thomas, author of "The Vegetarian Epicure," a 1972 bestseller. As Jonathan Kauffman writes in his ...

Several years ago, I worked for a couple of different bakers at farmers’ markets, selling bread and fielding questions, which were most often about storage. What folks wanted to know was how to keep ...

Our Wine of the Week is a great match for a kale soup with short ribs. Heads up, zin lovers! Our Wine of the Week, the Louis M. Martini 2016 Gnarly Vine Sonoma Valley Monte Rosso Vineyard Zinfandel ...