What foods do you consider aphrodisiacs? The way you answer this question probably depends on your native culture. We all belong to one (o...

Rio de Janeiro's venerable downtown restaurant Rio Minho is home to one of Brazil's most famous "homage" recipes, Seafood ...

In an eminently practical and gastronomically inventive move, the São Pedro Fish Market in Niterói, Brazil, just across the bay from Rio de...

If Rio de Janeiro is Brazil's San Francisco, a comparison that's been made many times, then the city of Niterói on the other side of...

This recipe from the state of Maranhão features a mollusk known as tarioba in Portuguese and as giant false coquina in English. (Click here...

The coastline of Brazil's northeastern state of Maranhão sometimes resembles the sandy beaches of my state, Ceará, but more often is bac...

What's for dinner tonight? At my place, at least, it'll be shrimp with tomato sauce. I've got some guests coming over this eveni...

One of the things I enjoy most about putting Flavors of Brazil together is the process of discovering exactly what it is that I am discussi...