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Food and Drink in Brazil

This huge country offers a cuisine as diverse as its regions and climates, with many dishes showing their African roots. Enjoy these resources for Brazilian cuisine, recipes to enjoy at home either in preparation for your travels in Brazil or as souvenirs of your visit.
Caipirinha, anyone?
Brazil's national drink, made with limes, sugar, water and the sugar cane brandy known as cachaça is an international favorite. Check out these recipes in various languages and enjoy a taste of Brazil wherever you are!
Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Your next latte, expresso, cafe au lait, or plain cup of coffee might just have come from South America, one of the world's producers of fine coffee.
Cuisine of Ecuador and Brazil
This huge country offers a cuisine as diverse as its regions and climates, with the staples being rice and beans. Manioc is used as a flour and a seasoning. Many dishes show their African roots. Fruits are many and varied, some found only in Brazil.
A Taste of Brazil
Recipes for some of the most popular dishes.
Brazil Wineries
In the temperate zones "is where Italian immigrants began the modern-day wine growing industry in Brazil in the 1880's. Today, most vines continue to grow well below the tropical north and do best in what is now the largest growing region, the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state."
Brazil Wineries
The complete list of Brazilian wineries and vineyards online, in an alphabetical list, from Travelenvoy.com
Cuisine of Brazil
"The population of Brazil is a racial mix of native Amerindians, Portuguese, Africans, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Syrians, Lebanese and Asians, among others. This has created a national cooking style marked by the preservation of regional differences." Regional cuisine, ingredients, special dishes and vegetarian food.
Guaraná
"Guaraná (pronounced: gwa-ra-'naa) is a soft drink that is named after the berry from which it is made. This berry (Paullinia cupana) originates from the Amazon region but it is more and more grown outside the Amazon basin. Outside Brazil, guaraná is mainly known as a food supplement. It contains a kind of caffeine -guaranine- and there are many claims about its effects on the human body."
Wine Map
Location of wine making areas.
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