When I used to travel around Brazil with a backpack years ago, I was intrigued by the number of small, often hand-written signs in front of ...

Just one hundred years ago Brazil began to receive immigrants from Japan, mostly farm laborers who arrived to work in the coffee plantations...

This simple one-dish meal (serve with white rice and a salad) is made with Brazil's exotic spiny cucumber called maxixe (see previous po...

At the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th, a Brazilian dance swept through the ballrooms and salons of the Americas and E...

Whether  you're in church or at the beach, whether you're hunting colored hard-boiled eggs around the house, or gobbling a Brazilian...

In the previous post , I mentioned that making a bolo de rolo at home is not anything for an amateur or a weekend cook to try. It involve...

About 5 miles (8 km.) north of the city of Recife in Brazil's Pernambuco state lies the small historic city of Olinda. With its baroque ...