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 arrival of the Portuguese Court in Brazil brought a custom to the table: eating game birds. In Rio de Janeiro, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tinamous, small-billed tinamous, and also turkeys, were on the finest menus, especially in Laranjeiras, then an elegant summer retreat.

“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

Oysters have always been a hot topic at Rio de Janeiro's tables. But... with what? We saw over half a century (from 1841 to 1910) of the habit of eating them with white wine (no matter what it was) at the Municipal Market, but there are more specific combinations:

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...