Brazilians love lobster - who doesn't? But in the relationship between Brazilians and the tasty crustaceans, there's a problem: to...

Although chickens are by far the most-commonly consumed poultry species in Brazil, just like everywhere else, they aren't the only birds...

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

Probably the biggest puppy we ever saw was a two-month-old St. Bernard - it had to have been at least 100 lbs (50 lbs) and it was still a ...

Porco caipira The Brazilian Portuguese word caipira is one of those emotionally-charged words which carry a lot of connotations, both po...

There are at least 500 species of fish in the zoological superorder Batoidea , and the vast majority of them are edible, or at least certa...

You can call the tucunaré , a Brazilian fish native to the fresh waters of the Amazon basin, a peacock bass if you wish, but according to ...

A few weeks ago, a group of friends, Brazilians and non-Brazilians alike, dined together at a well-regarded restaurant in Fortaleza by the n...

For untold centuries, the millions of turtles that inhabited the fresh waters - rivers, ponds and swamps - of the Amazonian rain forest were...

Sort of a halfway-step between shrimps and lobsters, with some traits more like the former and others more like the latter, crayfish (or cra...

One of the most common deep-water fish in Brazil,  a fish called the namorado inhabits the waters off the entire 7500 miles of Brazilian coa...

With the oversized tambaqui as the topic at hand, we're back in the freshwater environment of the Amazonian rain forest, where everythin...

Anyone with just a bit of familiarity with the Portuguese language might logically think that the word cavala means mare - you know, a femal...

Amazonian river prawn Amidst the bounty of strange and unusual fish and shellfish to be found in the stalls and boxes of the Ver-o-Peso M...

Lagoinha Beach, Ceará One of the best things about spending a day at on a quiet beach in Brazil is that the menu at the beach bar is very...

With one of the world's longest coastlines, it isn't surprising that Brazil is a country full of fish and seafood eaters. The tropic...

Tainha is the Brazilian Portuguese name for the fish known in English as the mullet. Fortunately, confusion has been avoided here because th...

Brazil has long been famed internationally for the beauty of its inhabitants. The world's top model is the extravagantly beautiful Gisel...

One of the things I find really enjoyable about doing Flavors of Brazil is discovering a new ingredient here in Brazil, and then "track...

Although human beings have been known to eat almost everything that walks, hops, or squiggles its way across the earth, most animal sources ...