If you've ever visited an Italian market and wondered what the dried fish "salt cod" - also known as baccale -is used for, you wouldn't be alone. What good could come from a fish as dry as a wooden ...

1. Place the salt cod into a bowl and cover with cold water. Refrigerate for 8 hours. Pour off the water and replace with fresh water every 2 hours. After the fish has soaked for 8 hours, rinse in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some things our mothers teach us are concrete: How to drive a car, read a W-2 form or hem a pair of pants. Other life lessons sneak up on us. My mother taught me to cook almost by osmosis. It was ...

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 ...

How to make those delicious salt cod fritters from now-closed K&L Bistro As a new year unfolds, certain things are inevitable, like ads for weight-loss programs and diets, along with predictions about ...