One of the pastries I envy most is pastel de nata in Portugal. This past summer, I spent a couple of days in Porto, Portugal ...

Rafael Tonon is an award-winning journalist, writer, curator, and researcher, covering food trends and the restaurant industry in Brazil and Portugal for Slate, The Washington Post, Epicurious, Atlas ...

Puff pastry and a creamy custard come together in this classic tart. One of the many joys of a trip to Portugal is trying a pastel de nata, the famous Portuguese tart made from puff pastry and egg ...

The pastel de nata, an egg custard pastry tart, is Portugal’s most famous dessert, and Lisbon is full of patisseries claiming to make the very best one in the country. However, there are so many to ...

Nata de coco, a chewy coconut jelly, is a classic Filipino sweet we love on its own or mixed into desserts, cocktails and even salads. Nata de piña is a byproduct of the manufacture of piña cloth made ...

On the fringes of Lisbon, in the picturesque section of Belem, are two shrines that every year draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. The more imposing is the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, the ...

Four Places to Try pastéis de nata in Lisbon The Story of Pastéis de Nata The use of egg whites to starch religious garments ...

If someone asks you if you’d like a croissant or a macaron, you’re going to know what they’re talking about. At which point you’re then going to want to eat one, obviously. But lately, you’ve probably ...

A native New Yorker of Mexican heritage, Diana Perez has spent the last 17 years working across the culinary media landscape. A graduate of Syracuse University (cum laude), Diana first worked in ...