Before I get going I just want to acknowledge an uncertainty that I’m sure you English teachers out there can help me with. I feel instinctively that it’s OK to write “quails eggs”, but part me feels that it should have an apostrophe, like this: quails’ eggs. You know, eggs belonging to multiple quails. But […]
One of the joys of my life in Rio is the beautiful apartment that we have been renting for the last 2 years. It is in quite an old building with 3 stories and we are lucky enough to have the top floor which includes an incredible roof terrace with an even more incredible view […]
Every decent sized supermarket in Brazil has one – an aisle containing all the salted meats and pig parts. In the image below you can see (from the left) pigs ears, salted pork, pigs trotters, vertebrae, pigs tails, more unidentified salted meat and finally sausages! Cuts such as these are traditionally used in feijoada, […]
As someone who enjoys the spicy, tomatoey goodness of a Bloody Mary, I learned pretty soon after I arrived in Brazil that Worcestershire Sauce is sold here under a different name: Molho Inglês. This translates as ‘English Sauce’ which strikes me as an utterly sensible name considering: 1. “Worcestershire” is a bit of an awkward […]
Phew – Friday at last! It’s been a busy couple of weeks hence the paucity of posts, and after yesterday’s slightly ‘dense’ offering, I thought I’d follow up today with something a little lighter. On my way to work this morning I was sharing a bus with one of those people who play music through […]