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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...