For Mildred Yantin, cooking is her connection to family. "Everyone’s laughing and joking … just hearing all that commotion going on in the kitchen, smelling all that you're about to eat — that’s the ...

WHEN Isak Dinesen wanted to depict the abject misery of a Jutland fishing community in her short story “Babette’s Feast,” she described the villagers, clad all in black, eating a mean plate of salt ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Yield:> 6 servings 1 pound boneless salt cod (bacalao), soaked overnight in several changes of cold water (see note)> 2 cloves ...

Why eat preserved cod when fresh is so readily available? The salt transforms it into savory, complex comfort food, and nearly every country... Like the God of the Old Testament, salt cod goes by many ...

This dish is the essence of Chinese-Portuguese fusion. Fried rice, a distinctly Chinese dish, is fused with Mediterranean black olives, chorizo and salt cod. Bacalao is used primarily as a flavoring ...

Few aromas evoke the Filipino kitchen as powerfully as dried fish sizzling in hot oil. Banned in many condominiums and in the cabin of airplanes, dried fish is a staple of Filipino cooking. Dried fish ...

Fall River's Portugalia Marketplace features a one-of-a-kind room known as the "Temple to Cod." See what it is and why it's so popular.