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Monday night, I don’t know where to take my boyfriend for dinner in Florianópolis. He’s Italian and hardly ever eats Italian food outside of Italy, and it’s no different in Brazil, especially on an almost unknown island in the Atlantic. Pizza is an exception. After eating two reasonable pizzas the week before, I decide to ..read more

On the street where I live in Florianópolis, it’s common for street vendors to pass by with a megaphone in a car, offering different types of food. The most common ones are: the egg car, the dream car (a kind of doughnut filled with different jams), the colonial products car (salami, cheese, sweet bread, all ..read more

I’ve been through several dietary phases. Or should I say I’ve tried different diets? Whatever. The fact is that changes in my diet have always been part of moments of transition, such as moving out of my parents’ house, living on my own, starting a relationship, living in a new city. And it was at one of these moments that I started a macrobiotic diet. Even though I came from a dietary background where meat was central, I made an effort to cut out not only meat, but virtually all animal-derived foods. From one moment to the next, Self-Cure Therapy, a kind of manual on healing through food bas ..read more

Photography by Carla Rocha – Beans and rice A few days before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, while we are checking the batteries in our TV remotes and restocking our popcorn supplies, the delegations of the various participating countries are making their final preparations for the medal race. Just as in soccer, when the boots start to be softened, the pans in the kitchens of the sports centers will soon have to be heated to guarantee an essential element for the performance of the athletes in the various sports disciplines: food.  This year, the Games are being held in the coun ..read more

Photography by Carla Rocha Earlier, I had prepared a hot chocolate and some pine nuts to ease the chill of a gray, rainy winter afternoon. As I absentmindedly sipped my hot chocolate, I looked down at the packet of cocoa powder I had just used. In the middle of the packet was a picture of Porto Alegre’s public market. Above the picture was written: “Come and visit us! When I recognized the building on the package, I felt a mixture of nostalgia and sandeus. I was immediately reminded of the images that have been circulating on the Internet and in newspapers all over Brazil for the past four we ..read more

Vegan Restaurant in São Paulo – Photography by Carla Rocha I opened X (formerly Twitter) and the discussion was about a special cut of imported vacuum-packed meat sold in Brazil at a much better price than similar meat, but with signs of contamination by medullary osteomelitis. The conversation went on and on, with one participant stressing the importance of checking the origin of the meat before buying it, another questioning the possibility of contamination by ingestion, and so on. My mind began to wander. No one was considering whether it wouldn’t be safer to simply stop eating meat, or que ..read more

Photography by Carla Rocha Recently, while walking in Florianópolis, I was surprised to see a notice on the front of a pharmacy announcing the arrival of a shipment of Ozempic, a drug developed to treat type 2 diabetes and also used for weight loss. This scene reminded me of the pandemic period, when it was common to walk by these establishments (at least in Brazil) and find similar notices informing about the availability of protective masks or home tests to detect COVID-19, after these items became popular. Usually, such notices appear when a product sells out quickly due to high demand. The ..read more

Source: https://spaceperspective.com Food in toothpaste-like tubes, canned preparations, bags filled with a freeze-dried preparation. These are the main images of space food that we have seen since the first manned flight and the most recent voyages into space. After they were disseminated, these images left the impression that space food was a kind of ration, a minimalist portion much more focused on nourishing and sustaining the body than on actually feeding cultural aspects related to food. While these images are still prevalent, it seems that this idea of space food has been changing for s ..read more

Photography by Carla Rocha On the eve of Easter, as every year, it’s impossible not to notice the flood of chocolate offers everywhere. Both in the media and in the various shops and supermarkets, the colorful packaging of chocolate eggs is highlighted weeks before the date. Every year, however, this celebration tastes saltier. In recent years, the price of Easter eggs in Brazil has become exorbitant. At the same time, chocolate bars have become more expensive and fewer in volume. And the changes don’t stop there. More than once, I’ve seen posts on social media from people asking if others hav ..read more