Brazilian Cuisine

Where in the world

• Brazil territory

Communities and languages

Languages: Portuguese (Brazilian)

What is recorded

• Brazilian cuisine is recorded as its own large culinary system rather than as a branch of Portuguese or Latin American cuisine. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• influenced by Afro-Brazilian Cuisine documented
• influenced by Brazilian Indigenous Foodways documented
• influenced by Portuguese Foodways documented

  Portuguese contact is documented. Brazilian cuisine is not Portuguese cuisine.

• related to African Foodways documented

  Roughly 4.8 million enslaved Africans were carried to Brazil, and West and Central African ingredients and technique are foundational to its food.

• related to Argentine Cuisine documented

  A shared gaúcho and mate world across the southern border.

• related to Brazilian Indigenous Foodways documented

  Cassava, and with it the base of the national diet.

• related to Portuguese Foodways documented

  Three centuries of Portuguese rule, the language, and the bacalhau, wheat and conventual sweet traditions — which is one layer of three, not the whole.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• migrated to Syrian Diaspora Foodways documented

  ⚠ Kibbeh became quibe and sfiha became esfiha — now ordinary Brazilian snack-bar food. Those emigrants left an Ottoman PROVINCE, not a country, which is why Arab-Latin American food cannot simply be called Syrian.

• part of Japanese-Brazilian Cuisine documented
• part of Lebanese-Brazilian Foodways documented
• related to Argentine Cuisine documented
• related to Coast, Littoral and Border Foodways documented
• related to Colombian Cuisine documented

  The Amazon border, shared peoples of the Vaupés and Guainía, and fariña.

• related to Guyanese Foodways documented

  The Rupununi and the Takutu crossing to Roraima, with shared Makushi and Wapishana communities and a cattle economy.

• related to Paraguayan Cuisine documented

  The brasiguayo farming migration, the eastern border, and chipa and churrasco crossing both ways.

• related to Surinamese Foodways documented

  The southern border, shared Trio and Wayana communities, and the gold mining that crosses it.

• related to Uruguayan Cuisine documented

  The northern border towns are one settlement in two countries, speaking portuñol and eating both ways.

• related to Uruguayan Mate Culture documented

  ⚠ Uruguay grows no yerba; almost all of it is imported, chiefly from Brazil.

• related to Venezuelan Cuisine documented

  The Amazon border, shared Yanomami and Ye’kwana territory, and farinha/mañoco as one technology.

Regional cuisines

Dishes

Recipes

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