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Prepping up for Olympics: Cheer for Rio, explore the Brazilian cuisine

If there’s one place you need to be right now and over the next few days, it’s Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian city is abuzz with life, people, food and lot of excitement as it gears up to host the Olympic Games this year. Here we explore the city’s food scene in the days leading to the big event. (AFP)

Updated on: Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM IST

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If there’s one place you need to be right now and over the next few days, it’s Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian city is abuzz with life, people, food and lot of excitement as it gears up to host the Olympic Games this year. Here we explore the city’s food scene in the days leading to the big event. (AFP)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

If there’s one place you need to be right now and over the next few days, it’s Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian city is abuzz with life, people, food and lot of excitement as it gears up to host the Olympic Games this year. Here we explore the city’s food scene in the days leading to the big event. (AFP)

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As expected, a lot of focus is on the traditional Brazilian cuisine, making good use of the opportunity to introduce the world to the food habits of the South Americans. Here, a woman prepares a tapioca dish, which is essentially unique Brazilian-style crepes. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

As expected, a lot of focus is on the traditional Brazilian cuisine, making good use of the opportunity to introduce the world to the food habits of the South Americans. Here, a woman prepares a tapioca dish, which is essentially unique Brazilian-style crepes. (REUTERS)

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While you can find fine restaurants in Rio, what sets the city apart and brings its residents, known as ‘Cariocas,’ together is the unpretentious food they eat in crowded bars and on busy street corners after a day at the beach. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

While you can find fine restaurants in Rio, what sets the city apart and brings its residents, known as ‘Cariocas,’ together is the unpretentious food they eat in crowded bars and on busy street corners after a day at the beach. (REUTERS)

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Brazilian dish feijoada being cooked at the Bar do Mineiro in Rio. Widely considered Brazil’s national dish, feijoada is a rich, deep, black bean stew slow cooked with meats like salted pork, smoked sausage, bacon, pork trimmings, or aged, dried beef. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

Brazilian dish feijoada being cooked at the Bar do Mineiro in Rio. Widely considered Brazil’s national dish, feijoada is a rich, deep, black bean stew slow cooked with meats like salted pork, smoked sausage, bacon, pork trimmings, or aged, dried beef. (REUTERS)

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A man prepares a soup of beans to serve with feijoada. In Rio, the dish is considered as the Brazilian equivalent of England’s Sunday roast dinner, and is traditionally eaten during a leisurely, drawn out Saturday afternoon. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

A man prepares a soup of beans to serve with feijoada. In Rio, the dish is considered as the Brazilian equivalent of England’s Sunday roast dinner, and is traditionally eaten during a leisurely, drawn out Saturday afternoon. (REUTERS)

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A man prepares meat for churrasco. While Brazilian churrasco features everything from pork, sausage, and chicken hearts, you’ll want to order the irrefutable star of the show, picanha, referred to as rump cap in English and considered the best cut of beef in Brazil. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

A man prepares meat for churrasco. While Brazilian churrasco features everything from pork, sausage, and chicken hearts, you’ll want to order the irrefutable star of the show, picanha, referred to as rump cap in English and considered the best cut of beef in Brazil. (REUTERS)

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Characterised by a thick layer of fat, the meat is skewered on swords and seasoned with just a sprinkling of coarse salt so as not to mask its flavour. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

Characterised by a thick layer of fat, the meat is skewered on swords and seasoned with just a sprinkling of coarse salt so as not to mask its flavour. (REUTERS)

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Rio’s local food is best served with lots of friends, non-stop conversation, glass after glass of cold, draft beer known as ‘chopp’, and if you are lucky, local music. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

Rio’s local food is best served with lots of friends, non-stop conversation, glass after glass of cold, draft beer known as ‘chopp’, and if you are lucky, local music. (REUTERS)

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A woman prepares bolhinhos de bacalhau, or fried codfish balls, known to be the most famous Rio de Janeiro bar food. However, it’s said that a really sublime bolhinho, with the right mix of salt-cod, flour, potatoes and spice fried in the right oil, is hard to find. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

A woman prepares bolhinhos de bacalhau, or fried codfish balls, known to be the most famous Rio de Janeiro bar food. However, it’s said that a really sublime bolhinho, with the right mix of salt-cod, flour, potatoes and spice fried in the right oil, is hard to find. (REUTERS)

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Cooks prepare meals during one of the many food-testing exercises for the Olympic menu in Rio. The have been working on special meals for participant athletes of certain sports, who are supposed to have a diet rich in calories , several times more than what the typical adult needs to get through a regular day. (AP)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

Cooks prepare meals during one of the many food-testing exercises for the Olympic menu in Rio. The have been working on special meals for participant athletes of certain sports, who are supposed to have a diet rich in calories , several times more than what the typical adult needs to get through a regular day. (AP)

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A Podrõ — the ‘filthy’ street sandwich stand, one of the many that ring the edges of the busiest night life districts in Rio. They serve cheap hamburgers, hotdogs and other sandwiches on a griddle with all the trimmings, just the thing you need after a night of partying. (REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 05, 2016 4:06 PM

A Podrõ — the ‘filthy’ street sandwich stand, one of the many that ring the edges of the busiest night life districts in Rio. They serve cheap hamburgers, hotdogs and other sandwiches on a griddle with all the trimmings, just the thing you need after a night of partying. (REUTERS)

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