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Off to Brazil for the Tiradentes Food Festival

By Linda Eckhardt on August 22, 2012

Tomorrow, I’m flying to Belo Horizonte in Brazil then to Tiradentes for a food festival.

You know I only go where the food is good, and since this BH is considered the heart of the agricultural world in Brazil, I’m looking forward to some good eats.

BH is also considered the Bar capital of the country so I’ll find you some super cocktail recipes too.

Tiradentes is a little mining town where they hauled out the gold from Brazil and sent it to Portugal 200 years ago. Tiradentes was the name of a Brazillian hero who stood up to the Portugese for stealing the wealth of his country.

They drew him and quartered him for it. I hope to see this painting.

Tiradentes_Esquartejado_(Pedro_Américo,_1893) drawn and quartered

The real meaning of drawn and quartered in Brazil. when his hero stood up to the Portugese for hauling gold out of the mines and shipping it to Portugal. couple hundred years ago.

I mean, I have to find something to do in between meals.

Stay tuned, I’ll post as often as I can from beautiful Brazil. I’ve got the I-phone loaded with Brazillian music, and a couple aps for Brazillian travel phrases and vocab. I’m good to go.

see you on the southern side.

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About Linda Eckhardt

Linda West Eckhardt, is an award winning journalist, food writer, and nutritionist. Her more than 20 cookbooks have garnered prizes including the James Beard prize for the best cookbook for a text she wrote with her daughter, Katherine West DeFoyd, entitled Entertaining 101, Doubleday. Their follow-up book, Stylish One Dish Dinners, Doubleday, was also nominated for a James Beard prize. Their next book, The High Protein Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, remains a best seller after 12 years. That book was designed to accompany low carb diet plans. Her ground-breaking book, Bread in Half The Time, Broadway Books, was named the Best Cookbook in America by the prestigious IACP, The Julia Child award. Her award winning radio work with Jennifer English, for a national show on the Food and Wine radio network, was nominated for a James Beard Prize for a show called, “I Know What You Ate Last Summer.”