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Food and Drink

B razil is a brew of multiethnic cultures scattered throughout many regions. Among the country’s jungles and cities, hamlets, and towns is a cuisine as varied as its population. Brazil’s culinary tastes and habits are chiefly influenced by its indigenous population, and the role that African slaves and Portuguese colonizers played in the country’s history. Others immigrants, including Germans who arrived in the early nineteenth century, and the Japanese, have also had a hand in molding the country’s culinary heritage. Not only does each of these groups have distinctive tastes, but each region in Brazil has its own special flavors.

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