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Immigration and Brazilian Food

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Between 1870 and 1930 Brazil received around five million immigrants, and the food changed permanently. ITALIANS in São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Espírito Santo — polenta, pasta, and São Paulo’s pizza, of which the city now has its own dense style and an unusual quantity. JAPANESE from 1908, the largest Japanese population outside Japan, centred on São Paulo’s Liberdade and on Paraná — and responsible for much of Brazil’s vegetable growing as well as for a distinctly Brazilian sushi. LEBANESE AND SYRIANS, whose esfiha and kibe are ordinary Brazilian snack food. Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Koreans and Bolivians. ⚠ THESE ARE BRAZILIAN FOODWAYS with their origins named.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Italian, Japanese

What is recorded

  • Around five million immigrants arrive in Brazil — Italian, Japanese, Levantine, German, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. documented
  • Japanese migration to Brazil begins, producing the largest Japanese population outside Japan. documented

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