Sugar water…

I had a professor in college who marveled at the economic juggernaut the Coca-Cola Company created with what he called “sugar water”. I sometimes think of him when I see folks in Brazil drinking caldo de cana, or “sugar broth” (very loosely translated).

Caldo de cana is made in a special machine that squeezes the liquid out of sugar cane. There are a couple of these at the Suburbo mirante. The resulting extract looks like dirty water and, as far as I’m concerned, doesn’t taste much better! B loves the stuff. I think it helps to have grown up drinking it.  This one seems like a motorized version of the type of machine they must have been using in Brazil for hundreds of years.