Planet Food - Planet Food- Brazil featuring Merrilees Parker

Planet Food - Planet Food- Brazil featuring Merrilees Parker Tube. Duration : 49.22 Mins.

It may well be only one country but Brazil offers a host of different culinary cultures. Merrilees Parker starts her journey in the Afro-influenced coastal city of Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. She helps offer food to the Candomble Gods before filling up on sweet street food and being swept along by the infectious energy of street drummers. The next day, she meets Da Da, a famous restaurateur and TV chef who learned the art of Bahian cookery while living in the Favelas (shantytowns). Together they cook a spiny lobster and Moqueca fish, a delicious local coconut cream and fish stew. Merrilees then paddles up the River Amazon and journeys into the rain forest in search of Brazil nuts and bizarre fruits, tapioca pancakes and exotic barbecued fish. Downstream, Belem's wonderful market offers even more surprises including a Guarana smoothie, jambo leaf, manioc and dried shrimp soup and hundreds of herbal medicines. Merrilees then heads south to Recife in the Pernambuco state, where Portuguese flavors are the order of the day. Here, sugar plantations have given the world Cachaca, Brazil's answer to rum. Merrilees samples the national cocktail and whisks up a Cachaca mousse before joining the Easter celebrations at the extraordinary Fazenda Nova, an open-air reconstruction of old Jerusalem where tens of thousands watch the Last Supper and gorge themselves on goat kebabs and pastries. Further south in Porto Allegre, Merrilees meets the Gauchos who tend Brazil's famous ...

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Amazing Street Food, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Travel Guide

Amazing Street Food, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Travel Guide Video Clips. Duration : 2.07 Mins.

When it comes to street food, Rio de Janeiro has plenty to offer. Here in Rio De Janiero it is impossible to escape the delicious sights and smells of the street foods available here. We are here at a tapioca store in Impanema. Tapioca is one of the more popular street foods you will come across here in Rio. They are kind of like a crepe with a multitude of fillings. There is meat, there is sweet and cheese and that is basically your tapioca pancake. Well though not Brazilian in origin, many vendors also sell churros. It is a sweet dessert not unlike a donut, fried, battered. But the secret is in the hollow middle they will fill with chocolate sauce or dulce de leche, which is caramel. Popcorn is one of the most popular street foods in Rio. You can get either the sweet, dulce, or the salty, sargado, or possibly the best thing, a mistuda (Unclear), getting both mixed together. In the sargado, you might find a few nasty suprises in the form of bacon chunks, so just look out. Another snack you are likely to see everywhere is called corn on the cob. Keep an eye out for the shiny steel carts and get it served right in the husk of the corn slathered in butter. On the beaches you are likely to find many people with homemade barbecues and the delicious (Unclear) which is grilled cheese. So there is a selection of the street foods available here in Rio De Janiero. For the most part delicious, safe and very cheap. But just two words of warning, if the guy selling you the imparted ...

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