Washington cook Rossana Aspite Grimm knows that this Venezuelan dish is traditionally made with beef. But she prefers to use pork, rubbed with a flavorful paste, then slow-roasted. She starts with a ...

Several culinary styles claim sofrito as theirs. I don’t care so much about where it originated as much as the amazing depth and savory goodness it can add to my recipes today. In its simplest form, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

Like many Puerto Rican matriarchs, my abuela was notorious for reusing branded food containers to store anything. The biggest containers were usually giant tubs of butter filled with a fresh, green ...

Angel Morales will be the first to tell you that no real cook of Hispanic heritage uses sofrito off the shelf. Because, you see, it's a matter of pride. Sofrito, for the uninitiated, is a kind of ...

In this recipe for Pescado con Sofrito, chef Katie Button uses an aromatic, slow-cooked sofrito to add vibrant flavors to an otherwise quick dinner of white wine-poached white fish fillets. Button ...