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Non-Fiction
Abc afro-brasileiro
Text and illustrations by Carolina Cunha. Edições SM.
46p. ISBN 9788576754503
Abc do Brasil
Ana Maria Machado. Illustrations by Gonzalo
Cárcamo. Edições SM. 47p. ISBN 9788576752295
The series ABC, presents Brazil as its main theme giving
the readers a global vision and introductory knowledge
about the country. In ABC afro-brasileiro, Capoeira,
Levante dos Malês, Meninha do Gantois, Yemanjá, among
other themes, are some of this book ‘s entries on the
African heritage in the Brazilian culture. It rescues
values, behavior and traditions and presents to the
reader a little of the oral tradition, music and dance,
ancestry as well as the relation with nature, the people’s
architecture such as the Nagôs, Bantus, Yorubas, among
other ethnic groups that went to Brazil.
Award-winning writer, Ana Maria Machado, winner of the 2000 IBBY Hans Christian
Andersen Award is responsible for ABC do Brasil. She approaches political and racial
questions with the same importance as the richness of culinary traditions, music,
architecture, and literature, among another aspects of the large 8 million square meters
diversity of the country. The book is organized in form of entries from “A” to “Z, as if the
author was talking to the reader.
O Brasil põe a mesa: nossa tradição alimentar
Vera Vilhena de Toledo and Cândida Vilares Gancho.
Moderna. 95p. ISBN 9788516050887
What are the typical Brazilian dishes? Feijoada? Vatapá?
Duck in tucupi sauce? Rice with jerked beef? Carne de
sol? (sun dried beef) Barbecue? Tutu bean? The Brazilian
food is not restricted to traditional dishes. It is a mixture of
Indigenous, black and Portuguese palate, and later of the
European and Asian immigrants. The records by writers and
travelers in literary texts, cookbooks, photos and paintings
allow us think about the act of eating. This book revisits the
Brazilian history from feeding as a daily routine and changes
that make up a picture of the Brazilian “soul”.
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