Cook Brazilian: Brazilian Kitchen (paperback edition) - Softcover

Curious about that chayote in the produce section? Or wonder what to do with yucca, guava and those mysterious bottles of cachaca at the liquor store? Leticia Moreinos Schwartz provides a sideboard brimming with answers. "My main goal with this book," said Schwartz, a Rio de Janeiro native, "is to teach home cooks what they don't know about Brazilian cuisine, and to inspire them to cook dishes they haven't considered before." The first recipe here calls for shrimp stock - something that's always in my freezer. Once you make it at home, you'll never again discard shrimp shells. Now, here are a few exotic flavors to savor.--Lorraine Eaton "The Virginian-Pilot, 9/25/13 "

Like its soccer and samba, beautiful beaches and carnival, Brazilian cooking is an explosion of colour and flavour. This collection of recipes offers dishes like Salmao no Risotto de Caipirinha (Salmon over a Caipirinha Risotto) and Bolinho Quente de Doce de Leite com Sorbet de Coalhada (Molten Dulce de Leche Cake with a Sour Cream Sorbet).
Leticia Moreinos - who spent her childhood in Rio's paradise neighbourhood Ipanema - grew up eating Caldinho de Feijao all day and drinking fresh coconut water on the beach, and was homesick for this culture when she moved to New York to work in some of the world's top restaurant kitchens. Cooking for herself, she went back to the Brigadeiros and Baba de Moca of her childhood but found that her palate had changed. She began to reinterpret classic Brazilian dishes as a chef, making them a little lighter and less sweet for our health-conscious age and a lot easier to recreate at home. The result is this groundbreaking collection of easy-to-make, easy-to-love recipes. With simple techniques and well-explained directions, dishes such as Salmao no Risotto de Caipirinha (Salmon over a Caipirinha Risotto) and Bolinho Quente de Doce de Leite com Sorbet de Coalhada (Molten Dulce de Leche Cake with a Sour Cream Sorbet) will become part of your everyday cooking repertoire and bring a welcome Copacabana-borne breeze into every home kitchen.