brazilian cooking

aspiring cook said:

i got turned on to brazilian food for the first time
recently, particularly the meat dishes. now i'd like to
know which cookbook is recommended for brazilian cooking.
any suggestions appreciated.

What dishes? A few years ago I sent 2 weeks on business in
Rio and didn't have a meal better than mediocre all the
time i was there. The food tended to be very bland. When I
asked about the food the people there said that up near the
Amazon the food was better. I've spent time in both Chile
and Venezuela and liked the food in both of these places
very much.

I would like to think that I just had bad luck picking
restaurants in Rio. Has anyone had better luck?

JakeInHartsel

Glenn Jacobs said:

On 7 Mar 2004 16:16:52 -0800, aspiring cook wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

i got turned on to brazilian food for the first time
recently, particularly the meat dishes. now i'd like to
know which cookbook is recommended for brazilian cooking.
any suggestions appreciated.

Quoted message said:

What dishes? A few years ago I sent 2 weeks on business in
Rio and didn't have a meal better than mediocre all the
time i was there. The food tended to be very bland. When I
asked about the food the people there said that up near the
Amazon the food was better. I've spent time in both Chile
and Venezuela and liked the food in both of these places
very much.

Quoted message said:

I would like to think that I just had bad luck picking
restaurants in Rio. Has anyone had better luck?

Quoted message said:

JakeInHartsel

Well, it has been twenty or more years since I have been in
Brazil, and I had never been in Rio.

Brazil is a very big country. In the few years I spent in
Sao Paulo, I encountered several local cuisines.

There are a couple of things which distinguish Brazil.

In Sao Paulo, at least, on Wednesdays and Saturdays,
one enjoys *fejoida*. That is a stew of the last few
days (much like US restaurants offer a soup being
"cream of yesterday"😉, served on rice, and surrounded
by slices of orange.

And then there was cachaca, the principal ingredient of a
caiperinha.
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