Jun 14 2009
Brazilian Cuisine, Remember the Samba!
It began like most ethnic food movements “do – with small restaurants in the neighborhoods where immigrants settled, small restaurants and cafeterias and cafes opened by those who wanted to offer a foretaste of the house of their fellow emigrants . The Chinese, Italian, Middle East, Thai – bistros, cooking spread outside those cultures “district” from the good food and the word spread. The last “nouvelle cuisine” which is spreading like wildfire east of Brazil – a delicious mixture of three cultures, which meets in the dishes and delicacies that are not found anywhere else in the world.
To understand the cuisine of Brazil, one must understand a little of its history. The base of the Brazilian cuisine is in their root – that sustainable Brazilians – cassava, yams, fish and meat – but it bears the stamp of two other peoples and the Portuguese who came to the conquest and remained, and the African slaves they brought with them to work cane. Brazilian cuisine is now a seamless amalgam of the three influences that among other in a unique and totally Brazilian style.
The staples of the Brazilian regime are root vegetables, seafood and meat. In cassava, from cassava roots is the “meal” of the region, and is eaten in one form or another almost every meal. The root of bitter cassava is poisonous in its raw state, but when prepared properly, the root of cassava and tapioca yields farinha, the basis for many dishes from the region. The Portuguese influence shows in the rich, sweet egg bread that are served at almost every meal, and in the dishes of seafood which are based “seafood” the coconuts and other and vegetables.
We meet sugar every day in our daily life. We found sugar at our morning coffee or tea; grab another sugar for our morning meal, besides breakfast, which is mostly in shape of liquid sugar that we used to sweetening our bread. Everyone loves sweat taste, even for a baby. Do you know that the first taste that baby enjoyed at their first time is a sweaty taste? This is could be a sign why people is like sweaty taste, where some of them even crazy about it.