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CHAPTER THREE: FOOD AND DRINK
Food and Drink
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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. Other 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 do these groups have distinctive tastes, but each region in Brazil
has its own special flavors.
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