Brazilian Specialties
Brazil’s most famous specialty is their coffee, however, in the northern most growing area in Brazil, inland from the port of Salvador, hidden in the Rio de Janeiro river basin. There is an exquisite specialty; a superior grade of coffee bean, pea berry coffee. An exceptional washed mild Brazilian Moka Pea berry with soft uniform vanilla and nut tones aroma, orchestrating a sweet acidity in a distinctive body. It is a very well balanced coffee, with an excellent body, a very good sweetness with a smooth and very clean flavor.
Something from Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil comes a supplier of it’s own coffee filter paper. Their main objective is to improve its paper quality, which is already high grain of white and natural brown filter papers, as well as craft and specialty papers.
Docinhos…and Doces, Brazilin sweets that are served at birthday parties, weddings, and any festive occasion. These are marvelous concoctions of eggs, sugar, and/or sweetened condensed milk, and a variety of fruits and nuts, including coconut, dates, prunes, walnuts, Brazil nuts, peanuts, etc. You can also find these at any dessert counter and specialty shops every where in Brazil, especially in the southern region of Brazil.
The city of Pelotas in Rio Grande do Sul is a big center for these and other sweets made from all different types of fruit and sweet potatoes. In northern Brazil, sweets are made of Amazonian fruits, such as acai, bacuri, Brazil nuts, buriti, and cupuacu. These are just a few of some of the Brazilin specialty sweets.
Northeast Brazil has a great specialties of the endangered caatinga, chapada, and Atlantic Forest habitats, plus an extension to Carajas in Amazonia. This strange habitat, stark and hauntingly beautiful, is the caatinga, limited to northeastern Brazil, and one of the most extensively altered habitats in South America. It features an endemic avifauna, many of its birds among the most poorly known and rarest in the world. But not all of northeastern Brazil is covered with caatinga. Semi-deciduous wood land and cerrado like scrub in a magnificent setting of ancient buttes and mesas are also important habitats. There are so many different types of species located in northeastern Brazil the list goes on forever.
However, these are a few of Brazil specialties. Brazil has so much to offer that someone would have to visit just to begin to get an understanding of everything there is to offer.