Somewhere in our memory, we can recall “grandmother’s food”, the cozy feeling of being in the home of someone who thought of the meal as a hug. Roberta Sudbrack’s Sud, o Pássaro Verde (Sud, the Green Bird), is exactly that.

In that valley, life was made of the ups and downs of ox carts bordering the river.  The history of the street is inseparable from the Carioca River—the city's main source of fresh water until the end of the Empire—since the street's design was sculpted by the trails and paths that bordered its...

“The ladies would pass by my grocery store in the Market, giving me angry looks, because I demeaned the white color.”  The restaurant that was the first hot spot of Copacabana, opened in 1902, it was right in front of where today is the Z-13 fishing colony, on the corner of the current Francisco Ot

The trend of picnic banquets in the Botanical Garden was no joke: The menu of the Chinese commission (1885) included cold cuts, preserves, butter and sardines, omelette with truffles, fish with lobster, stuffed shrimp, filet with mushrooms, curry rice, lobster mayonnaise, Brazilian turkey, York...