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Brazil is a big country and the variety of typical food travellers and nomads can find here is enormous. Brazil is much more than feijoada and caipirinha. This post is to talk about the food in the southeast region, which includes the states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. This region offer a wide variety of typical foods. Some of these foods are found in restaurants in other regions too, but the local versions, in special for food from Minas Gerais, are much more interesting. The typical foods from Minas Gerais are among my favourite brazilian foods. The traditional feijoada is one example of local typical food. Made with black beans and pieces of pig. I don't eat the external pieces of pig, like ears, tail or feet, but some restaurants use only inner parts to prepare feijoada. Muslims and other people who does not appreciate to eat pig (or the strong taste of black beans) have other options, like the "caldeirada", which is made with se...

Brazil is a very large country and it have different climates and vegetation. Each region have rich culinary options worthy the experience. This post is about pequi, a fruit typical from the Brazilian cerrado. The most common uses are in the "galinhada" (rice with chicken and pequi) and the "arroz com pequi" (rice with pequi and "carne de sol", a salted bovine meat). Both options can be eaten with a green salad for dinner. You will easily find them visiting cities as Uberaba, Uberlandia, Montes Claros and Goiania. It's also possible to find them in Brasilia. To eat the fruit I recommend you to take it with your hands and eat, taking care because it's a bit like a small mango, with a big seed inside and it's better not to break the seed or you'll end the night at the hospital with a lot of thin thorns inside your mouth. The seed is hard, don't be afraid. This is an advice just for you don't force it and concentrate in the deliciou...