It began as most ethnic food movements do with small restaurants in the neighborhoods where immigrants settled, diners and lunchrooms and tea rooms opened by those who wanted to offer a taste of home to their fellow migrs. Chinese, Italian, Middle Eastern, Thai from family run bistros, the cuisine spread as those outside the cultures of the neighborhood learned of the good food and the word spread. The latest new cuisine that is spreading like wildfire is Brazilian a delicious blending of three separate cultures that comes together in dishes and delicacies that arent found anywhere else in the world.
To understand the cuisine of Brazil, one must understand a little of its history. The base of Brazilian cuisine is in its native roots the foods that sustained the native Brazilians cassava, yams, fish and meat but it bears the stamp of two other peoples as well: the Portuguese who came to conquer and stayed, and the African slaves that they brought with them to work the sugar plantations. Brazilian cuisine today is a seamless amalgam of the three influences that interweave in a unique and totally Brazilian style.
The staples of the Brazilian diet are root...