Eat Smart in Brazil: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods and Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Eat Smart in Brazil) - Softcover

Joan Peterson; David Peterson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0964116898 ISBN 13: 9780964116894

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

Synopsis

This smartly designed culinary travel guidebook opens up the world of Brazilian food to travelers, including students studying abroad, and tells how to find the most delicious, authentic, and adventuresome eating experiences there. The second edition of ""Eat Smart in Brazil"" comes with a new cover design, as well as an updated resources chapter. In addition, the index has been supplemented with a Portuguese translation for each English entry, making the book more useful for any traveler. The author shares the secrets she's uncovered while hunting for something good to eat - from restaurant dining to home cooking to fresh market produce - to allow you to get to the heart of the culture through its cuisine. The book also includes recipes from some of the finest chefs in Brazil. As you know, food is one of the first and most immediate contacts a traveler makes with a foreign country. Travelers to Brazil can make it a more memorable contact by taking along the easy-to-use ""Eat Smart in Brazil"", one of the guides in the award-winning ""Eat Smart"" series. The authors show that traveling and eating in unfamiliar territory doesn't have to be gastronomical guesswork.

About this title

Review:

"ÝJoan Peterson has¨ cooked up a tantalizing volume of attractive photos, true-to-life sketches, tasty recipes, and encyclopedic information on regional produce and cuisine of Brazil. Formulated with scientific precision, yet in eminently readable style, this book appeals to a broad public of travelers, connoisseurs of the exotic, and seekers of useful information on the multi-ethnic giant of South America."
--Mary L. Daniel, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Portuguese Department

"[Joan Peterson has] cooked up a tantalizing volume of attractive photos, true-to-life sketches, tasty recipes, and encyclopedic information on regional produce and cuisine of Brazil. Formulated with scientific precision, yet in eminently readable style, this book appeals to a broad public of travelers, connoisseurs of the exotic, and seekers of useful information on the multi-ethnic giant of South America."
--Mary L. Daniel, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin Portuguese Department

About the Author:

Joan Peterson is an experienced world traveler and the author of the Eat Smart guides to the food of Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Poland, Morocco, India, Peru and Turkey.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0964116898
• ISBN 13: 9780964116894
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Brook Soltvedt