Sunday, August 16, 2009

Continental breakfast…

In my experience, most Brazilian households serve a continental breakfast (South America being the continent in this case). I thought I would document a few key aspects of this mundane practice as I believe there are some mildly interesting differences to breakfast in the States and Germany.IMG_9089 (683x1024)Firstly, breakfast is made and served by folks who work in the home. In Brazil, virtually every middle class family has a full-time live-in made.  This in part explains why our breakfast table here is a bit more elaborate than back in Deutschland.

As you can imagine, a nontrivial amount of coffee is consumed all across this great country. Most Brazilians wouldn’t think of serving it without piping hot milk as well, both served in thermoses at the temporary Prickril compound. Cold or room temperature milk/cream is the type of social faux pas that can instantly make you the center of conversation at hair salons all over your neighborhood (one of the the down sides of Brazil’s intensely service-based economy). IMG_9094 (683x1024)By the way, the Portuguese word for breakfast translates literally to “morning coffee” (café da manha). Now that’s dedication to joe not even the four-dollar-a-cup Starbuck’s crowd can match.     

Another strange habit that I’ve spied over the years is the tendency to dig out the soft innards of baguettes, abandoning what I consider an integral part of the bread on the plate.IMG_9097 (1024x683) But I’ve gotten ahead of myself: Brazilian breakfast always includes fresh baguettes from the local bakery. We’re buying ours at a chain grocery store and they are off the scales, better even than the ones we buy in Germany. IMG_9091 (1024x683)Sadly, there will be no weight loss on this trip (although after imbibing more beer and cocktails than I care to count every night, it seems unfair to blame the baker). Anyway, most Brazilians I’ve observed eating bread with breakfast prefer to eat just the light crispy “shell” of freshly baked baguettes.

Another cornerstone of Brazilian breakfast is fruit. It is not uncommon for this fruit to come from one’s garden or that of a neighbor. A concrete sidewalk in Brazil seems to be more fertile than some farmland in other parts of the world. This trip I’ve been eating more than my fair share of Palmer mangos. Its meat has none of the fibrous strands of other varieties and is as good as almost any other fruit I can think of. IMG_9092 (683x1024) Finally, as with all meals in our household, breakfast is incomplete without some diet version of Coke. What a way to start the day…IMG_9093 (683x1024)

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