Product Description

Travelers who like to get to the heart of a culture through its cuisine, yet never find enough material about food in general guidebooks, can get a quick handle on eating abroad with the unique and innovative Eat Smart destination cuisine guides, which contain a treasury of culinary surprises and language tips for navigating menu and market. Less adventuresome eaters will be more at ease in experimenting with new foods and food preparations since these invaluable guidebooks take the guesswork out of exotic, unfamiliar foods.

The premiere guide in this authoritative series—Eat Smart in Brazil: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure—is a paean to Brazilian cuisine. It contains a rich historical perspective on the origins and varieties of Brazilian food and extensive background on the delectable regional dishes. Portuguese phrases are included to make one’s culinary adventure even more successful.

At the core of the book are two extensive glossaries in Portuguese with English translations. The "Menu Guide" demystifies food selection, allowing visitors to order with confidence in restaurants; the "Foods & Flavors Guide" is a comprehensive list of foods, spices, cooking utensils, cooking styles, etc., to make shopping in the colorful outdoor markets easy and fun.

Authors Joan and David Peterson—inveterate travelers, cooks, seekers of unusual herbs and spices, and new ways to prepare familiar ingredients—have added a delicious bonus by providing a chapter of recipes for travelers to preview the tastes before departure, thus broadening the guide’s appeal to cookbook lovers as well. If you are traveling or moving to Brazil, take this book with you!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1264875 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

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.

Review
“[Eat Smart in Brazil] adds ¡Ole! to the kitchen. The history of Brazilian cuisine, descriptions of regional foods, a detailed menu dictionary, a glossary of ingredients, a phrase book, a guide to markets and a handful of recipes are packed into this paperback, which should be useful for the traveler, actual or armchair.”—Florence Fabricant, The New York Times

“Don't even think of going to Brazil without this book. You'll recoup your investment in it within the first day.”—Kate Moore, Travel Books Review

“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

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Customer Reviews

Well researched, accurate and very informative.
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

Informative & Useful
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."

One-of-a-kind introduction to Brazilian cuisine
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