What surprised me most about Brazil is how many different fruit and vegetables they grow here. Anderson, our tour conductor, said they import very little food because they can grow almost anything! Here are just a few Brazilian grown food we have seen and tasty.
• Pineapple-ever so sweet and tasty
• cassava (root starch vegetable like our potatoes; uses include fried like our French fries, ground into flour for bread),
• blueberries
• mango
• pickled cabbage, red and yellow peppers and onions
• pickled onion relish
• fish from the Amazon
• tilapia farm raised in ponds
• roasted salted peanuts
• pinto beans and rice
Today, we had lunch at a restaurant on a ranch. They raise and grow all the food for the seven restaurants owned by the rancher. That's about as close to 'locally grown' as you can get.