Acarajé
On the Road - Salvador - Pt. 7 - The SENAC Restaurant-School
In Salvador, one obligatory stop for anyone interested in Bahian gastronomy and cooking is the SENAC Restaurant-School, located in a histor…
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Bahia
On the Road - Salvador - Pt. 6 - Museum of Bahian Gastronomy
The Museum of Bahian Gastonomy, Largo do Pelourinho, Salvador Located in a beautiful historic house on the most famous square in Salvador, …
Bahia
On the Road - Salvador - Pt. 5 - Dona Mariquita's Moqueca do índio
Among the numerous "endangered" dishes to be found on the menu at Restaurante Dona Mariquita in Salvador, Bahia, is an intriguing…
African influence
On the Road - Salvador - Pt. 4 - Dona Mariquita's Endangered Dishes
Walk down the long narrow one-way street called Rua do Meio in Salvador's happening Rio Vermelho neighborhood, away from the leafy Larg…
Acarajé
On the Road - Salvador - Pt. 3 - The FIFA/McDonald's Scandal
It's hard to overstate the cultural value of the humble acarajé to the citizens of the Brazilian state of Bahia. This unprepossessing, …
Abará
On the Road - Salvador - Pt. 2 - The Joy of Abará
As Julie Andrews once warbled, "Let's start at the very beginning, A very good place to start...". So, we're beginning ou…
Bahia
On the Road - Salvador - Pt. 1
Salvador, Bahia From time to time since beginning this blog in 2009, we've featured series of reports from various cities and regions o…
Amazon
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 10) - RECIPE - Pan-fried Filhote
We'll wrap up our series of "On the Road" posts about the city of Belém and its unique regional cuisine, based on the bounty …
Amazon
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 9) - A Very Big Puppy - Filhote
Probably the biggest puppy we ever saw was a two-month-old St. Bernard - it had to have been at least 100 lbs (50 lbs) and it was still a l…
açaí
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 8) - Tropical Ice Cream Paradise
In the hot, muggy, often stifling climate of Belém, simply being able to refresh oneself from time to time with a cone or cup of ice cream …
Belém
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 7) - RECIPE - Tacacá
Photo by Adalton Ramos As with our earlier recipe for pato no tucupi in this series of posts about the Amazonian cuisine of the city of Be…
Belém
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 6) - Tacacá
tacacá At the end of the afternoon in Belém, around four or five, just after the daily torrential downpour ends, a collective hunger pervad…
Belém
On The Road - Belém (Pt.5) - Manioc, Let Me Count the Ways
As we mentioned in last Friday's post about the three cornerstones of the cuisine of Belém, the staple carbohydrate upon which the cui…
Belém
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 4) - RECIPE - Duck in Tucupi (Pato no Tucupi)
Such is the fame of Pato no Tucupi, the most iconic dish of the Amazonian cuisine of Belém, that in the annual listing of the city's be…
Belém
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 3) - The Three Cornerstones
The cuisine of Amazonian Brazil, and in particular the cuisine of the city of Belém, is complex and elaborate, even in its most traditional…
Belém
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 2) - The Links
Although our current series of posts on the Brazilian city of Belém is intended to give a good overall view of the gastronomic culture of t…
African influence
On The Road - Belém (Pt. 1) - The Culinary Importance of Belém
From time to time Flavors of Brazil posts a series of related articles which we call "On The Road". Each series details the gastr…