Most recipes for duck, whether Brazilian or not, can be made using either domesticated farmyard ducks - the big white ones - or with wild d…

Just as you can find variations on baked or grilled flatbread all around the world, from Mexico and its tortillas, to Lebanon's lavash,…

When Brazilians ask for " o pão nosso de cada dia " (our daily bread) as part of the Lord's Prayer, the vast majority of them…

This recipe for a crumble-topped, apple-flavored cake is probably not all that different from the one that readers of Flavors of Brazil ha…

The Portuguese word cuca (at least the culinary meaning of the word) is a direct derivation from the German word kuchen , meaning cake. The…

Making sausage at home, any type of sausage, appears at first to be a daunting task. Particularly the whole business of getting that mixtur…

Brazilian inherited their love of sausages from their European ancestors, whether those ancestors were Portuguese, Italian, German, Polish …

The citrus fruit that is most important in Brazilian cooking and gastronomy is, by far, that small, round, sharply-acidic green ball called…

Adam and Eve on a raft According to Wikipedia, diner lingo is a uniquely American verbal slang used by waitresses and cooks in hashouses an…

When Flavors of Brazil was in Belém, Pará recently, one of the best things about our hotel's marvelous breakfast buffet was something w…

At times it's easy to forget that not everything about Brazilian cuisine is strange or exotic from the European or North American point…

From time to time Flavors of Brazil posts a series of related articles which we call "On The Road". Each series details the gastr…