Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When I page through a cookbook from Portugal, or look at Portuguese recipes online, I am impressed just how powerful Portugal once was and how it brought to ...

Many foods that were popular in the years before refrigeration became common have since fallen out of favor, replaced by fresher, tastier alternatives. Salt cod, however—cod that’s been salted and ...

Certain foods are too powerful to stay in the past. Buljol, named for the contorted patois of the French words brulé (burned) and gueule (mouth), is a dish of dried salted cod, and has followed my ...

Salt cod has long been a national staple in Portugal, where it is said there are as many recipes for this humble fish as there are days in the year. And at Christmas the dried and salted fish is ...

If there is one food that enabled world history to develop as it did, it may be the codfish. In fact, food researcher Mark Kurlansky wrote a book about it -- "Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed ...