Archive for March, 2009

requiem for Jericoacoara?

Posted on March 17th, 2009 in Destination: Fortaleza&Jeri, News

We have seen the announcement in the media and a few blogs: Jericoacoara is going to have an international airport. The governor of the state of Ceará is promising it will be operating in July 2010 (there are general elections in October that year). In actual fact, rather than a full-blown airport, we are just [...]

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the Brazilian pastel

Posted on March 04th, 2009 in Food & drinks, Typical Brazilian

Those with a grasp of Spanish should learn before they arrive in Brazil that the ubiquitous pastel is a false cognate and does not mean cake or pie like the Spanish term does. Rather, a pastel (its full form is pastel de feira) is a small pasty, made of puff pastry, rectangular in shape and [...]

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