[Sca-cooks] OOP - Portuguese/Brazilian cooking

[Sam Wallace]

Ana,

What is the source of the early Brazilian recipes you mention? I did a
Portuguese feast a few years ago and have a couple of good sources
that I will share as soon as I get home this evening. I do not recall
seeing anything from Brazil when I looked, so finding something "new"
in this region/culture would be really nice. It was interesting to me
that some of the words for ingredients used in the Portuguese texts
have changed in modern Portuguese from Portugal, but stayed the same
in Brazil.

Thanks,

Guillaume
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> I am not sure about the borders of the period but Brazil is an old country and the Portuguese colonized it already in the 16th century, Bahia was the first capital from 1549 to 1763. I have some recipes from the time where Bahia was newbuild and the Brasilian ingredients and the Portuguese cooking started to mix. Par example: vatapa is made from bread, shrimp, coconut milk, finely ground peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy paste. This food is very popular in the North and Northeast, but it is more typical in the northeastern state of Bahia where it is commonly eaten with acaraj?, although Vatap? is often eaten with white rice in other regions of Brazil.

> Ana
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>> Either!  This group isn't picky, and while I might be interested, they won't care.  And if I try to cook Brazilian, I'd be very surprised to find something period.

>> Sandra