An ultimate travel book, combining exquisite writing on food with history, culture and politics, to create an intelligent and enthralling portrait of a fascinating country. Outstanding... a heady and fascinating picture of an extraordinary country }Daily Telegraph Using the art, food and the books of Brazils nineteenth-century writer, Machado de Assis, this work is about its history of slavery and the multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century.
