Rather divine entrails
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1226322,00.html
Peter Robb brilliantly entwines Southern American food and politics in
his erudite portrait of a nation, A Death in Brazil, says Alex Bellos
Saturday May 29, 2004
The Guardian
A Death in Brazil
by Peter Robb
329pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99
As well as death (there are many besides the one of the title), this
book is crammed with two other human essentials: sex and food. The
deaths feature in massacres, genocides, crimes of passion,
assassinations and cannibalism. Sex is found wherever Peter Robb
looks, from the Portuguese marvelling at Indians' vaginas as soon as
they reached South American soil, to 16th-century Inquisitors' reports
of sodomy and bestiality, to the sugar plantations, where every matter
of life "led subtly back to sex", and even to the author's Rio flat,
where once a knife is held to his throat by an amorous intruder. The
food is gorgeous, exotic and described with fantastic erudition.
Robb's favourite is buchada, a goat's entrails stuffed in the animal's
bladder. He writes that the dish reminds him of "the work of some
unmentionable surgeon... I have rarely tasted anything more
delicious."
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