Egg yolks, sugar, and coconut baked into a glossy yellow custard that turns out with a coconut base. Brazil's most…

Beans tossed dry with bacon, sausage, egg, collard greens, and cassava flour. The mule drivers' dish that became the pride…

Cassava flour toasted in butter with bacon, onion, and egg until golden and crunchy. The side dish that goes with…

Black-eyed pea fritters fried in red palm oil, split open and packed with vatapa, caruru, and shrimp. Bahia's great Afro-Brazilian…

Beef braised with lemongrass, star anise, and annatto until the broth runs red and the meat gives way. Eaten with…

Paper-thin steamed rice sheets rolled around pork and wood ear mushroom, topped with fried shallots and dipped in nuoc cham.…