The Brazilian cuisine has many traditional specialties, different from region to region, has nothing in common with South American cuisine, on the contrary, the Brazilian food recipes special features that make it different and unique. Unlike other South American countries maintain specific characteristics that are neither typical of Spanish cuisine, or cuisine typical of the Incas.

The most unique recipes are prepared in the area of Bahia and are mostly made ​​of coconut milk. In this region the people are very fond of pepper in many dishes and put the peanuts, cashews and dried shrimp. In addition to meat cooked on the grill, another characteristic dish is a mixture of shrimp and crab and seafood with a sauce.

The Brazilian food carries a small part of the Portuguese culinary tradition, the Indians and African dishes are the oldest fish, elk meat and roots such as cassava and peanuts, but with the arrival of African slaves began processing the sugar cane and then processing the coffee. Brazil is the land of coffee, but drinking it can make for an Italian disappointment, roasting is very different and the taste of coffee is very different from that to which the European is accustomed.

In the North of Brazil uses a lot using the grated coconut, along with palm oil and coconut water. They are also excellent local dishes such as roast duck tucupi the caldeirada, crab claws, Amazonian fish. The fruits are delicious Amazon: açai, cupuaçu, graviola, bacuri, chestnuts, juices and ice creams made from these fruits are famous throughout Brazil. As you go south, however this influence, while not disappearing altogether, and decreases already in Rio de Janeiro, which is located 1200 km south of Bahia, you eat more European style.

The Brazilian cuisine is usually very tasty, the national dish is the "Feijoada" (similar to fagiolata) but the dish is served only on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the dish is made ​​with beans and pork dried blacks (whose importation is banned in Italy). Everywhere on the tables of Brazilian beans and manioc flour, the slight local beer and "cachaça", distilled from sugar cane.

The Brazilian people are very friendly, outgoing, very warm, already in making knowledge are much more open, the greeting includes a kiss and a hug, so friendship becomes simple and spontaneous. If by chance you are invited to a dinner, be prepared for a long evening, hardly come out before 3 am!

Before dinner the Batida drink, the caipirinha and caipiroscha, so much so that dinner is extended and often the first food you consume, even after ten o'clock at night, that's why you end up eating after midnight and dinner is rarely concludes at the end of the meal, usually after it remains in the company. In fact, after the dinner will assist in dances and of course, get ready to "sambare". If you have eaten too much, try the classic "cachaca", a powerful digestive Brazil.

One said the Brazilian said: "If eating feijoada, there is no room even for a bean, just a bit 'of cachaça and a slice of orange and you can continue to eat."