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What Is Brasil's Influence On South American Culture

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South America, has strong latin roots, also are known for their beautiful mountains, rainforests, jungles and rivers. The Amazon rainforests, jungles, and rivers have a lot of diverse wildlife and interesting ingredients that grow all over South America. This will help start the Amazonian cuisine for many South American cultures. In Brasil, Chef Alex Atala’s is heavily influenced by his discoveries during his trips to the Amazon. He would change the style of the Brasil cuisine by using the ingredients he found by putting the ingredients to the test. The majority of his inspiration is rooted in Brasil’s majestic rainforest and all 26 states of Brasil. Chef Virgilio Martinez would explore his homeland of Peru for exotic ingredients. He wanted to focus on resources of Peru ecosystem. This will be a once in a lifetime experience for his guest and that will make it a symbol for Peru. Both will do something special by making dishes using the native resources and ecosystem. Brasil is the biggest country in both South America and Latin America. Brasil is well known for its ingredients used in the food they make in all of their 27 states. The ingredients first used by native peoples in Brasil include cassava, guaraná, açaí palm, and tucupi. Brasil cuisines are heavily …show more content…

It borders Ecuador, Colombia, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, and the Pacific Ocean. The four traditional attaches of Peruvian cuisine are corn, potatoes, quinoa, kaniwa, and legumes. The Peruvian cuisine has been reflected on immigrants from Spanish cuisine, Italian cuisine, German cuisine, Chinese cuisine and Japanese cuisine and West Africa. In need of the familiar ingredients from their home countries, immigrants modified their traditional cuisines by using ingredients offered in Peru. Peru's wide-ranging of the environment allows the growth of different plants and animal goods for

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