Brazil for Beginners
Planning a vacation anywhere for the first time can be overwhelming. Planning a trip to a country that seems as big as a continent, and as diverse as several, poses special challenges. Here was my advice to one friend visting Brazil. Several ... [... more]
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Okra
Okra is heat loving crop, originating in North Africa, where it was been cultivated for centuries. Okra was introduced to Brazil in 1658 and entered North America with the slave trade. With an increasing interest in regional cooking, okra is ... [... more]
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Frances de Pontes Peebles
Frances de Pontes Peebles was born in Pernambuco, Brazil. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received several awards, including Brazil's Sacatar Artist's Fellowship and the Michener-Copernicus ... [... more]
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Caipirinha
Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil. The drink is made with cachaça (pronounced - kuh-sha-suh). It is technically a brandy and a member of the aguardente family. There is an old adage in Brazil: "quanto pior a cachaça, melhor a [... more]
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Chili Salsa
These are often used in Brazil as dips/sauces for many dishes. Serving size is a guess since it depends on taste preference and how much you want it. 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar, or 2 tbsp lime if you want salsa with lime 1. Mix all ... [... more]
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Eat Smart in Brazil, 2nd Ed.
 From Amazon.com: Brazil is a complex country of Indian, Portuguese, and African descent that mixes its heritage in amazing culinary concoctions, but you need savvy to partake as fully and gloriously as you might like. From abacaxi (pineapple) and [... more]
CDN$19.95
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Wildlife Guides Brazil
Brazil-Amazon: This book attempts to cover the whole gamut of wildlife for the Amazon basin and Pananal. It can't do it; no book can. It did make an admirable attempt and as such is a great book for the tourist traveling to the area. On a recent trip [... more]
CDN$31.50
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A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions
Too Superficial: This book is very strange. It is neither an academic essay nor a good analisys of Brazilian history and costumes.It is a combination of everything that ends up being very dissapointing. For a brief book on Brazilian history, I reccomend & [... more]
CDN$17.00
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Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
From Amazon.com: Europeans first became aware of the huge territory called Brazil as a distant outpost of what the Portuguese conquerors called the Estado de India, a far-flung "network of coastal enclaves running along the Indian Ocean, from [... more]
CDN$40.50
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Bossa Nova from Brazil
Artist: Marcia Salomon Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0711297203523 MPN: 2035 Original Release Date: 2007-08-27 Release Date: 2007-11-06 UPC: 711297203523 Tracks: Pro Menesca \oPro Zé\c Longa Metragem Verbo Amar/O Melhor Vai Começar Cada Um, Cada [... more]
CDN$9.99
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Electro Do Brazil
Artist: Various Artists Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0090204828647 Format: Import Format: Compilation Original Release Date: 2005-12-27 Release Date: 2005-11-21 UPC: 090204828647 Tracks: Gool! Samba para Ronaldo - Bobby Brazil Can You Feel It - Rivera [... more]
CDN$28.64
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Hippeastrum papilio Syn. Butterfly amaryllis
For five dollars Australian you too can grow Hippeastrum papilio Syn. Butterfly amaryllis. This rare species from Brazil, is the most beautiful of all the species we find. It is claimed to be extinct in nature. And since its discovery in the late ... [... more]
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