Party attitude: You see it at Gauchos Village in Glendale, where a live samba band plays on weekends and sequined dancers appear once an hour to dance in the aisles like Carnaval-crazed cuckoo clocks.

"This recipe is very close to the feijoada my mom used to make when I was growing up in Brazil," says the lifestyle star and co-author of Just Try One Bite, a children’s book about picky eaters. "It ...

Pork and beans is an age-old combination, expressed in countless ways around the world. Southwestern pinto beans refried in lard. Asian tofu with pork sauce. The all-American can of pork and beans.