When in São Paulo, eat brazilian cuisine | 05 de agosto de 2010
Eat brazilian cuisine in São Paulo
The abundant praise for São Paulo´s dining scene has historically focused on its global range. Brazilian food, meanwhile, is what you eat at home or in rural roadside pit stops or at restaurants serving dirt-cheap, starch-heavy lunch specials known as "pratos feitos" (literally, "made plates").
The abundant praise for São Paulo´s dining scene has historically focused on its global range. Brazilian food, meanwhile, is what you eat at home or in rural roadside pit stops or at restaurants serving dirt-cheap, starch-heavy lunch specials known as "pratos feitos" (literally, "made plates").
But the idea that Brazilian cuisine can hold its own is slowly taking hold in São Paulo, thanks to a new generation of chefs looking outward for technique but inward for ingredients and tradition. Attuned to the necessities of presentation by their (mostly) European training and conscious that the heaviness of traditional Brazilian dishes will never pass muster with the gym-going elite, they have created a movement that has given their own nation a new sense of pride in its culinary heritage.
They have also adopted a loose version of the locavore philosophy: sure, those cupuaçu fruits were shipped thousands of miles from the Amazon, but at least they didn´t go through customs.
And for visitors, there is a fringe benefit of these chefs´ efforts: a way in to the richness of a country that is simply too big to eat your way around during any reasonable vacation.
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