Portugal’s Madeira island is shaking off its image as your grandparents’ vacation destination. (Though they’re still welcome, of course, and hotels in Funchal are still serving high tea.) Interesting ...

A direct flight from Newark now links East Coast travelers to Madeira, a Portuguese island with a spring-like climate and volcanic coastline. In May 2025 alone, the Autonomous Region of Madeira ...

Tomorrow is our national birthday. Our Founding Fathers and colonial citizens would surely have celebrated it with a glass or two of Madeira. You should do the same. Madeira was the wine of 17th and ...

Boating along Madeira’s south coast, taking in mountains and sea aboard a small chartered boat aptly named “Happy Hour,” we sip poncha, the island’s potent, perfect cocktail made of local sugarcane ...

The year was 1796. Napoleon I was asking Josephine de Beauharnais to become his bride, President George Washington was delivering his farewell address as the nation’s first chief executive and some ...

The festival will include food trucks from the Houston area ranging from savory to sweet, local artisans and Irish Folk band The Jig Is Up. The bi-annual festival is back in action for St. Patrick's ...

Madeira is a fortified wine that comes from the island of the same name. Different grape varieties are used to make the four types, which range from dry to sweet. It can be served chilled and drunk as ...

You could cut the recipe in half and leave out the layers and icing altogether for a simple summer fruit Madeira. Madeira cake did not originate in the Madeira Islands, rather from the Portuguese ...