Eat Smart in Brazil: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure [Paperback]

Joan Peterson (Author), Brook Soltvedt (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 11, 2006 | Series: Eat Smart in Brazil

     This paean to Brazilian cuisine contains a rich historical perspective on food origins and extensive background on regional dishes, including recipes.  With the bilingual aids provided, navigating market and menu is a breeze.

     The second edition of Eat Smart in Brazil comes with a new cover design, as well as an updated resources chapter.  In addition, the index has been supplemented with a Portuguese translation for each English entry, making the book more useful for any traveler.

In this edition of Eat Smart

·     Tour a variety of Brazilian kitchens to see how cooking styles differ region to region

·     Get tips on increasing your savvy in Brazil’s outdoor markets and supermarkets

·     Learn helpful phrases for use in restaurants, food markets, and more

·     Use a comprehensive glossary of ingredients, kitchen utensils, and cooking methods in Portuguese

·     Learn to prepare easy recipes:

          Camarão na Moranga (Winter squash with shrimp)

          Pão de Queijo (Cheese Rolls)

         Quindim de Yá-Yá (Young girl's dessert)

 

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

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 abobrinha (squash) to national favorites like farofa de banana (bananas fried with onion rings and manioc meal) and patinho de carangueijo ao vinagrete (marinated crab claws), you'll not want for good food. Joan and David Peterson do more than let you know what's out there, they give you the vocabulary to ask for it, and even include some recipes to recreate at home. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"[Joan Peterson has] cooked up a tantalizing volume of attractive photos, true-to-life sketches, tasty recipes, and encyclopedic information on regional produce and cuisine of Brazil. Formulated with scientific precision, yet in eminently readable style, this book appeals to a broad public of travelers, connoisseurs of the exotic, and seekers of useful information on the multi-ethnic giant of South America."
—Mary L. Daniel, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Portuguese Department

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ginkgo Press; 2nd edition (August 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964116898
• ISBN-13: 978-0964116894
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #700,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #98 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Regional & International > Latin American

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well researched, accurate and very informative., February 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eat Smart in Brazil : How to Decipher the Menu Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart Series, No. 1) (Paperback)

The authors have written a series of Eat Smart books that no traveler to foreign countries should be without. Each book covers a separate country--Eat Smart in Turkey, Eat Smart in Brazil, Eat Smart in Indonesia and Eat Smart in Mexico--and is chock full of information that you won't find elsewhere within the covers of one easy-to-carry paperback. Individual chapters cover such topics as the history of the country's cuisine, regional foods, how to shop in the local markets, mail-order sources for suppliers of ingredients, and a collection of recipes for typical dishes found in that country. Especially useful is each book's extensive menu guide, listing menu terms alphabetically in the language of the foreign country, with a description of the dish in English. That section is followed by a chapter titled "Foods & Flavors"--listing the foreign terms for foods, spices, kitchen utensils and cooking techniques, with an English translation/description. These books are well researched, accurate and very informative. Highly recommended. --Sharon Hudgins, editor, Chile Pepper magazine

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative & Useful, March 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eat Smart in Brazil : How to Decipher the Menu Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart Series, No. 1) (Paperback)

This book is an excellent guide to the cuisine of Brazil, which has a vast array of regional specialties, spices, fruits and fish. If you go to the Amazon, Bahia or Rio, for example, you're going to encounter quite different menus. "Eat Smart" is one of my key Brazil guides, along with the music book "The Brazilian Sound."

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One-of-a-kind introduction to Brazilian cuisine, January 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eat Smart in Brazil : How to Decipher the Menu Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart Series, No. 1) (Paperback)

To make the most of your Brazilian culinary adventure, pick up a copy of "Eat Smart in Brazil." This one-of-a-kind introduction to Brazilian cuisine demystifies food selection. Even timid diners can feel confident ordering exotic, unfamiliar foods. Read it before your trip and carry it when you dine out. -Ruth Houston, Gold Coast Gazette