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Permalink Reply by torque on February 28, 2008 at 8:15pm

Oi Jenny!
I haven't had any parasites (YET!) but I eat an awful lot of "accidentally organic" food. Water here is usually ok, so there's no montezuma's revenge or anything. Most parasites here in Brazil seem to come from meat, especially pork.
I have never had raw food at a restaurant, but there was something just on TV this week (SBT) about raw veganism, and maybe it will get more popular.
What's it like to be raw here??? The fruits, man, you have no idea how goooooooood they are! The variety. That said, today I ate broccoli, tomatoes, guavas, pineapple, collards, zucchini..... Good stuff. And it's mango season right now.
E dai, galera? Tem mais crudivoros neste pais? ^-^
EcoDea, adoro o seu blog!

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Permalink Reply by EcoDea on March 3, 2008 at 1:28pm

Jenny,
Being raw in Brazil is wonderful! I am in Canada now and it is much harder for me here! Although here it is easier to get raw products like raw tahini and the like, there are SO MANY kinds of fruit in Brazil, plus fruit trees everywhere that I love to just pluck off some leaves and experiment with them in my juicer... :)
As for restaurants and the like, in my part of Brazil (northeast) there is always a fresh coconut water stand, and places that serve fresh sugar cane and all sorts of fresh juices. In addition to that, fresh fruit salad is readily available, although it usually comes with sugar and/or condensed milk. You can also get salad at most restaurants, and I believe some lemon juice or apple cider vinegar will kill most parasites.
Here in the northeast there aren't many raw fooders yet, but in Rio there is a growing community and even one or two of restaurants.
Hope that helped!
Cheers,
Andrea

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Permalink Reply by Paulo Roberto Gaefke on March 8, 2008 at 8:01am

Hi Jenny,
My name is Paulo Gaefke, and the most restaurants in brazil has salads and many fruits. Brazil is blessed for the variety of fruits: mango, banana, pineapple (Ananas), and some exothics : açai, cupuaçu...
I like eat "Brazil nut " and cashew-nut....
here my recipe:

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Permalink Reply by Jenny on March 9, 2008 at 6:35am

Hi Torque, Andrea and Paolo,
Thanks a lot for your advice.
It sounds fantastic.
I love fruit like mangoes, watermelons, coconuts, pineapples, etc. I have noticed that tropical fruit don't taste the same here as in countries where they grow originally. It is not as much taste to them here and they are so rich where they grow!
How great that there are raw-food restaurants in Rio. What are they called and where are they situated, so that I can visit them when I come (even if it might be in a year's time (or so) it would be good to find out now...
What is in your recipe Paulo? It looks yummy.
Thanks and best wishes!!!
Jenny

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Permalink Reply by EcoDea on March 12, 2008 at 3:12pm

Jenny,
You might also like to check out thiese two groups in Sao Paulo:
http://wwwusers.rdc.puc-rio.br/anabranc/
http://www.oficinadasemente.com.br/
The first is a professor from a local university that gives courses which relate raw food and art - a fried of mine did it and said it was fantastic!
Cheers,
Andrea

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Permalink Reply by Jenny on April 1, 2008 at 7:20pm

Thank you very much Andrea,
I will check the links,
Jenny

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Permalink Reply by Paulo Roberto Gaefke on April 1, 2008 at 7:30pm

Jenny, my recipe has
1 fresh mangoe
cocconut and and cashew-nut.
you´ll see step by step in :
http://www.terradourada.org/
or in my blog (Comer crú mean 'eat raw' in http://comercru.blogspot.com/ (in portuguese, but you can see the pictures)
best whishes from Paulo Gaefke

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Permalink Reply by Jenny on April 2, 2008 at 3:15am

Mmm sounds delicious.
I will try it here, although I know the mangoes will not taste as great as the do over there...
Thank you,
Jenny

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Permalink Reply by Anisha on April 20, 2008 at 2:40pm

I am not Brazilian either, but I have an infatuation with the country (or at least what I know about the country). (=

I want to go down there too.

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Permalink Reply by Jenny on May 16, 2008 at 11:49am

Hi Anisha,
Maybe the one of us who goes first could give some raw visitor food info to the one who is yet to go.
Do you have any particular destination in Brazil you want to visit? I'd love to go to Bahia, but would of course also like to see other parts.

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Permalink Reply by Anisha on June 19, 2008 at 6:34pm

Hey Jenny,
Sorry for the late response. I studied Brazil for a class and the whole country sounds awesome. I've watched specials on the country and people as well, although I fall into a daze from seeing such beauty thus I am not able to retain much information. I definitely want to go to the amazon rain forest. Some other places such as Rio, Sao Paolo, the beaches, but where ever I go, I also want to get away from the tourist stuff and 'experience' the place like a local.

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Permalink Reply by Sjö on July 3, 2008 at 1:06pm

I will be visiting Brazil this October. I'm going to Curitiba and I'll let you know what it's like to be a raw visitor in Brazil!

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