segunda-feira, 3 de outubro de 2011

Brazilian food: a little bit of history

The Brazilian cuisine it’s a mix of European ingredients, and other people like Indians and Africans. Many of techniques to prepare the dishes, and many ingredients, are of Indian origin. They’ve been adapted by slaves and Portuguese, over the years, by replacing of local ingredients. A great example about this is Feijoada, a tradicional dish.

The Indian feeding was based on cassava, in form of flour and beijus (a kind of cassava’s pancakes), but also fruits, fishes, corn, potato, hunting and mash. The African feeding includes rice, beans, different kinds of meal (like elephant and buffalos) and couscous. This people preparing their foods baking, roasting, besides using pepper, sauces, vegetable oils such as olive oil-for-palm.

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