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{"time":1762430999385,"blocks":[{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Corn flour was already part of the diet of the indigenous people of Rio long before the arrival of the first Europeans, but in Petrópolis, in the mountainous region of Rio´s state, corn cultivation was recorded as early as 1802.  "}}],"version":"2.18.0"}

{"time":1762429965248,"blocks":[{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"Ask artificial intelligence what the first vegetarian restaurant in Rio de Janeiro was? The answers we got were off by about 70 years."}}],"version":"2.18.0"}

{"time":1762370359429,"blocks":[{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"The arrival of the Portuguese Court in Brazil brought a custom to the table: eating game birds."}}],"version":"2.18.0"}

{"time":1762370081761,"blocks":[{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"At 6 a.m., the milkman’s horn would sound, and door-to-door selling was already a habit in the 19th-century Rio de Janeiro. Fresh milk had to come from nearby. "}}],"version":"2.18.0"}

{"time":1762354880320,"blocks":[{"type":"paragraph","data":{"text":"  Pink shrimp has its season — and it’s now!<br><br>As Mark Twain would say: ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight. It’s the size of the fight in the dog!’<br>"}}],"version":"2.18.0"}