What luck Charles Pierre Gaston Francois de Lévis had. He began his public life at a deficit, “an incompetent and mediocre individual,” wrote the great Pierre Larousse, as quoted in the “Oxford ...

Joel Rodriguez and Luis Rodriguez Jr. stand under a replica of the firehouse in Ponce, Puerto Rico, which their grandfather built. A basic cooking technique that’s described in one of Europe’s oldest ...

A batch of Spanish sofrito in a seven-cup Cuisinart food processor in New Rochelle, N.Y., in 2015. >> Note: Bijol, also known as achiote or annatto powder, is used to color rice. It replaces the very ...

Maricel Presilla, featured in this month's Gourmet magazine, stirs sauces and shares culinary secrets with listeners from her home. And joining me now is Chef Maricel Presilla. She is profiled in ...

The beauty of sofrito is its versatility. It is primarily a base flavor component in many traditional Spanish dishes like paella, soups, stews, or rich dishes. Sofrito can work as a stand-alone sauce, ...

A classic Filipino stir-fry often eaten for breakfast, ginisang corned beef draws influences from Spanish sofrito (a basic sauté of tomato, onion and garlic) and American corned beef, both popularized ...