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Brazilian Challenge Day 4: Sushi me again please

One of the more pleasant culinary concepts in the country is the sushi rodizio. It is an all-you-can eat sushi menu. Not the cheesy and often disappointing buffet types you sometime see on the West Coast of the U.S., but … Continue reading

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Bread

Bread is huge in Brazil. This is quite unfortunate for me, as I have been attempting to avoid bread since it came out in The Zone that is was the source of all unhappiness in the world. The favorite is … Continue reading

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Culinary Retreat

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…Suspecting this was some kind of cosmic payback for spending way too much of our income on New York restaurants and Whole Foods, I tried to make the best of the situation. I covered the chunks of hotdogs in Parmesan cheese from a bag, and poured some Diet Coke into the wine (a trick taught to me by a good friend in graduate school when our regressive situation meant that we were drinking only the discount wines)… Continue reading

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The Road Continues…

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As promised, the following are additional observations from week two.

1. I’m definitely not driving in Sao Paulo. If traffic and crazy driving wasn’t reason enough, I’m not going to understand the road signs. (What the….?)
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What it means to be Brazilian, and why I have a long road…

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I’m in Sao Paulo for just a couple weeks to start the process of organizing our new life. On the plane ride over, I began to succumb to a total and utter panic. Continue reading

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