First, the beans. There is a typical Brazilian dish of beans stewed with different types of meat that I had tried during Portuguese language study back in Washington, but the real thing was very much better. Beans slowly stewed with different parts of the pig gives it a lot of flavor. At this restaurant, you could load up on beans and rice and then choose your meat, each part labeled in separate pots so that you knew if you were getting those savory bits of tongue, ear, etc.! The dish is called feijoada and is a typical Saturday meal that you consume with family and friends slowly, and, if my sense of sluggishness after eating feijoada is in any way typical, a nap probably follows the meal at some point.
Best of all was the great company of my colleagues here and the rhythmic live music in the background. This felt like a wonderful taste of Brazil!
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