The national cocktail of Brazil is the refreshingly tangy (and potent) caipirinha, made of cachaça , lime, sugar and good ol’ fashion elbow grease. Despite the fact that the name of the drink is derived from the diminutive of the word caipira , which can be translated as “hillbilly”, caipirinhas are enjoyed from the fine restaurants of São Paulo to the beach side snack bars of Recife. In fact, they are now enjoyed across the globe. The key ingredient is cachaça , also known as pinga , caninha , or aguardente . It is a rum-like alcohol distilled directly from sugar cane juice. To make a caipirinha , grab a low-ball glass and the following: 2 oz. of cachaça 2 tsp. of sugar 1 lime (quartered) 1 handful of crushed ice To make, toss the lime wedges and sugar into the low-ball glass and muddle (mash together, mixing the sugar with lime juice… if you don’t have a muddler, you can use a spoon). Next fill the glass with crushed ice. Then pour in the cachaça . Give it a quick stir an...
The Brazilian Sebestião Salgado is one of the world’s foremost documentary photographers. For over 30 years, his black and white images have humaized the struggle of the developing world amidst a continually globalized society. The photograph above was taken at the Serra Pelada gold mine in the northern state of Pará during the gold rush of the 1980’s. The image embodies two of his most prominent themes: Workers and Migrants.
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