Food from Brazil’s Amazon finds its way to metropolitan tables

Mongabay
Jan 2, 2017, 1:40 pm113 pts
SAO PAOLO, Brazil - For more than a decade, cook Vângela Veloso has traveled twice a year from Sao Paolo to her hometown Pará in the north of Brazil with empty bags. She returns with peppers, jambu, shrimp, tapioca and other goods harvested in the Amazon. The bounty from Brazil’s north is then prepared by…

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