Brazil is a vast multicultural food lab where you find a myriad of flours, Amazonian, African and Asian ingredients and Portuguese inspired sweets.

As more Brazilians come to Ireland, we are starting to see more exciting food ventures from Brazilian style sushi to steakhouses.

In this episode, we do a whirlwind tour of Brazilian businesses and meet the charismatic baker and entrepreneur Fabiano Mayor of Sugar Loaf Bakery in Dublin who tells us about the Brazilian sweets and food history, Euzana Forkan, Masters student in gastronomy at TU Dublin tells us about cassava, the versatile root that underpins so much of Brazilian food culture.

Finally, Pedro Ferraz, executive chef for Bodytonic group (Wigwam & Bernard Shaw) tells us that Russian beef stroganoff is a Brazilian family dish! 

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References

Brazilian food by Thiago Castanho

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