Brazilian Food

 Brazilian food has been quite tasty with exotic fruit from the Amazon rain forest, many different varieties of potatoes, bananas and spices.

Racife is a city of more than three million people and has beautiful public beaches for as far as the eye can see.  Our port-of-call today was the capital of Alagoas, Maceio.  Maceio has more than 50 miles of public white sand beaches.  Brazilians flock to the seashore on Sundays.  Along with the pre-Carnival celebrations in Racife, there must have been well over 100,00 people in the area we visited next to the coast.  There was live music and dancing everywhere.  There were percussion ensembles, New Orleans type marching bands and Brazilian combos throughout the neighborhoods near the beaches.  We visited a museum housing giant puppets for the Carnival parade.

This photograph was taken in Olinda which is a World Heritage site of the original settlement in Racife.  

We like to graze on local food as much as we can as food and music are in our opinion, the strongest fabric of local culture.  The most unusual dish I have sampled so far was yesterday when I tried diced goat heart and lung with vegetables and spices boiled in goat intestine.  The intestine is not consumed.  One must be careful what one eats in foreign lands or one can spend most of the next day in bed. 

As Fats Waller sang, "One Never Knows, Do One?"