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Tropical Daydreams: Palha Italiana

WEBThe ingredients of palha italiana are simple: one carton of sweetened condensed milk, one package of vanilla wafers, 4 TBS powdered chocolate and 2 TBS …

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Five Typically Brazilian Behaviors We're Getting Better At

WEBLast week I talked about some typically Brazilian things that Mark and I used to do but don't do any longer. Let's flip the coin now. We've been guests in this country …

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Tropical Daydreams: Comparing and Contrasting

WEBIn Brazil there is a safe in nearly every hotel room we've ever stayed in, whether the hotel is two-, three-, four- or five-star. The instructions are clear enough for a child to operate.

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Tropical Daydreams: Feijoada

WEBThe very first feijoada I ever ate was in New York City at a wannabe-Brazilian restaurant called the Coffee Shop. In retrospect, the feijoada served at the Coffee Shop …

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Tropical Daydreams: Test Your Brazil Smarts

WEBAnswer — Gotcha! All six are alive and well, and still creating great works of art. 2. Staying in the art world, name three distinguished Brazilian painters not …

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Tropical Daydreams: Batata Baroa

WEBBatata baroa [ba-TA-ta ba-ROW-a] came rolling down the Andes, originally known by its Quechuan language name of arracacha, and took root all around South …

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Tropical Daydreams: Forbidden Fruits

WEBLatex lurks, waiting to strike . . . My inability to eat, enjoy, savor, relish and otherwise delight in the myriad exotic fruits of Bra

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Tropical Daydreams: Lost in (Mis)Translation

WEBI don’t like to use this blog to rant, and I believe I have successfully held to that rule (except for anything I write about Driving in Brazil which, believe me, is a subject impossible not …

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Tropical Daydreams: Customer Service

WEBFor most Brazilians this is an expected and welcomed part of the shopping experience. It's part of what makes Brazil Brazil. Must drive Brazilians crazy to walk into a CVS …

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Tropical Daydreams: Bakery 1 and Bakery 2

WEBAnd we have discovered that they are not without some excellent baked goods. At 3:30 every day they put out about a dozen cheese baguettes, which have nothing to do with …

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Tropical Daydreams: Geribá Beach

WEBIf you start out from our own Manguinhos Beach and walk due south across the narrow isthmus neck of our peninsula you will find yourself on Geribá Beach in something like …

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Tropical Daydreams: Christmas in Brazil

WEBOf the three big holidays looming on the horizon, in Brazil Christmas is always spent with family. (New Year's Eve can be spent either with friends or with that one special person, …

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Tropical Daydreams: Our Dr. Seuss Plants

WEBDr. Seuss, a.k.a. Theodor Seuss Geisel, is known to and beloved by nearly every American who grew up before, in and after my generation. He was the author and illustrator of the …

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Tropical Daydreams: Brazil's New (Old) President

WEBWell, Dilma Rousseff was slightly ahead in the polls against my candidate, Aécio Neves, she kept the lead and won the election. Another four years of President Dilma.

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Tropical Daydreams: The Claremont Salad Lives!

WEB1 large onion, sliced 1/2 C salad oil. 2 carrots, sliced in rounds 1 tsp salt. 1 cucumber, sliced in thin rounds 1 TBS water. Mix all of the above ingredients together …

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Tropical Daydreams: Some Carnaval Rules and Regs

WEBIt took me a couple of years, but now I'm into the nitty-gritty. The schools are judged in ten categories, or quesitos — percussionists, samba (music and lyrics), harmony, evolution, …

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Tropical Daydreams: September 2013

WEBPeople have always said that I look like Amy Irving, or she like me. Okay, mostly it's in the hair, but there was indeed a resemblance years ago, especially during her Crossing …

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Tropical Daydreams: The Language of Oil Spills

WEBOver 30 years ago I worked for a maritime law firm which represented the French Government in litigation against Amoco Oil Company, owner of the oil tanker …

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Tropical Daydreams: Guardian Angels

WEBCurtis Sliwa and his beefy Guardian Angels began patrolling the New York City subways in the late ’70s, at a time when I was one of the many single women riding …

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Tropical Daydreams: October 2011

WEBOn my very first night in our new house in Búzios I walked around and around opening and closing doors like a kid with a new toy. Coming from a New York apartment, I was …

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Tropical Daydreams: Pizza

WEBA week or two ago The New York Times published an article mocking the way in which the popular, newly-elected mayor, Bill de Blasio, ate a pizza at a well-known …

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Tropical Daydreams: Carnavalescos

WEBIt's carnaval!Get out your masks, your feathers, your boas! Get your tickets to the Sambadrome parades! Pick your favorite street carnaval group and join in! Well, that's …

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