Pork

Short on time but long on taco craving? These ancho pork and potato tacos take little fuss and even less time yet make a satisfying solution.

This Mexican carnitas recipe is authentic braised and fried pork that makes for conversation-stopping, fall-apart-tender awesomeness.

Cultures collide in these pulled pork tacos from Nik Sharma that draw on tradition—by way of both Mexican techniques and Indian ingredients.

Toni Tipton-Martin's meatballs take a bath in homemade BBQ sauce that boasts an incredible sweet heat and a complexity that you'd never believe happens with so little effort.

Caramelized sugar, pungent fish sauce, and tangy lime create an experience that’s sublimely sticky and perfectly charred from the grill. Napkins, please.

Crisp, crackling BBQ pork belly just like what you find in Chinatown. Like most Chinese barbecue, It's impossibly tender, slightly sweet, and surprisingly easy to make at home.

"Wow!" "Off-the-charts good!" "Divine." "Amazingly juicy and tender." "A definite keeper." That's what we're hearing about these subtly and beguilingly spiced chops.

We can certainly understand why street food catapulted into trendiness. Assuming, that is, it all tastes as soulful as these skewers that are hawked on seemingly every street in Thailand.

"A revelation." "Beyond our expectations." "Deceptively simple." "I don’t have enough superlatives to describe these beauties." That's what we're hearing about these grilled lovelies.

In the pantheon of great Portuguese foods, there are few sandwiches that are more superlative than the bifana. Essentially pork, bread, and sauce, it's comfort food at its simplest.

For this embarrassingly easy roast, a tingling rub of Szechuan pepper, black pepper, and nutmeg (yes, nutmeg) coats pork butt or loin before it's roasted to tender incredibleness.

A specialty of Portugal that's a superbly comforting and oh-so-satisfying dish of marinated pork shoulder and briny clams in a white wine and red pepper sauce.

If you're looking for an upgrade this grilling season, here it is. Pork chops rubbed with an unexpected mix of spices and then grilled to juicy perfection. And no time-consuming marinade.

Astoundingly tender and judiciously spicy, these oven barbecued ribs gain a rich, deep smokiness from a simple turn in a hot oven, no fancy outdoor equipment required.

The infatuation with all things pork belly continues. Here it's infused with herbs and left to cook low and slow until mind-bendingly tender and flavorful.

Plump pork chops are pounded into satisfying submission (whack! whack! whack!) before being breaded and gently sautéed to perfection.

A sassy mix of ground pork, paprika, garlic, cayenne pepper, and wine that you can stash in the fridge and pull out whenever the craving hits. Which, we assure you, will be often.

This simple supper recipe requires only that you rub some spices on a hunk of pork, shove it in the oven, and not forget about it.

Jambalaya just doesn't get any more authentic than this deeply flavored, deeply revered rendition from Cajun country.

There's a reason this stroke of Italian brilliance, which infuses a relatively cheap cut of pork with a subtle milky sweetness, is a classic. One taste and you'll be thanking us.