Brazil Dinner Set up?

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Kali

Yes, the brazilian dinner set up has untill now some french details, but usually in the "A' la carte" restaurants (French service or English service).
At home we like to use the Brazilian Service (serviÃ§o Ã brasileira), but some restaurants do the same in the brazilian regional tipic ones.
We don't like anybody serving our plates. The maid usually sleeps and cook in our home (It is easy to have one) or she can come every day (not sundays, our favorite family and relatives lunch day).
She set up the table as in the english service, one glass for water or juice, the fork on the right...but the food is on the table and sometime the women likes to serve the man or children, SOMETIMEs. The idea is "don't be shy".
The most tradicional familys like when the maid does the indirect English service. When the food is served on your right. The man of the house has a specifc chair, but the women should sit on the right chair.
Everybody in a modern family can sit wherever they want, but sometimes the brothers and sisters like to fight for the best place, haha. And sometime the father has his favorite place (even in the modern familys the man can be the head).
The first pice of a birthday cake you must give to the oldest woman in your family or your to your mother. You can give to someone special if you have a specifc thing to say.
Our BBQ party is meat, not hot-dogs! We like "farofa" (flow) and Vinagrete (salad).
The "feijoada" (beans, vegetables and others partys of the cow or pork) is very popular too, we eat with rice and "farofa".
The meat, the beens, rice, vegetables, juice and organic things are cheeper here and we like to have every single day.

vivi8vivi

There is no specific way to eat in brazil...each family has there own routines. There are not specific seatings for each person. Each person gets served what they want to eat, no one gets served more. the food is prepared right before it is served.The house owners prepare it or the maid prepares the food.

cisne n.egro

Brazil was colonized partially by French etiquette adopted in Brazil is the French form of eating, besides our alimentary habits were based on the French habits.
The food in Brazil is still prepared for the woman, in Brazil the families that are not rich have a maid, or those that cannot negotiate an used by one month negotiates what called ourselves of "diarist", a cook diarist is called of "congeleira" she prepares the food for one month and everything is frozen.
The table is a party for the Brazilian, it is the meeting of the family, we have the habit of on Sundays to gather the family spills of the table and with at least a grandmother presence to the lunch.
Basically our daily feeding is composed of rice, bean, meat, vegetables and farofa, we ate a lot of fruits, and unhappily we are consuming a lot of gasified drink.
We make 3 main meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
On Sundays the famous barbecue with rice, bean, farofa, the husband prepared the barbecue.
In the south of Brazil that was colonized by Germans the habits they are Germanic.
In the north where exists most of native Brazilian, they only feed once a day, the woman prepares the food and clue the disposition for the children and the rest of the day they feed basically of fruits of the forest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_Brazil
http://www.rollerfeet.com/backporchbeer/2008/
http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/brazil/brazilwhat.html

larry n

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