{"id":307565,"date":"2022-02-18T18:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/cultura-gera-valor-a-comida-brasileira-diz-thiago-castanho\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:26:38","slug":"culture-adds-value-to-brazilian-food-says-thiago-castanho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/culture-adds-value-to-brazilian-food-says-thiago-castanho\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture adds value to Brazilian food, says Thiago Castanho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai \u2013 Brazilian chef <strong>Thiago Castanho<\/strong> (<em>pictured above<\/em>) participated this Friday (18) in a cooking show at the Brazil Pavilion at <strong>Expo 2020<\/strong> Dubai. From Par\u00e1, Castanho is famous for highlighting the ingredients and food of his state. He planned to precisely present this cuisine during the world exhibition, but the menu took on new contours with ingredients the chef found in the emirate.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Dubai<\/strong> and at Gulfood, a food sector show which ended this Thursday (17), the chef from Par\u00e1 found Brazilian products with abundance \u2013 and quality. \u201cThe a\u00e7a\u00ed berry was a surprise, and I wasn\u2019t going to put it on the menu, but I found it and decided to add it as an extra dish. I had ordered other fish, and when the chef told me there was arapaima here, I said, \u2018Really?\u2019 So, let\u2019s also include the arapaima from Brazil [also known as pirarucu]. The fish is something I wouldn\u2019t be able to bring, and finding it here was surprising,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-307565 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/culture-adds-value-to-brazilian-food-says-thiago-castanho\/whatsapp-image-2022-02-18-at-16-27-01-1-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-18-at-16.27.01-1-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-307522\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-307522\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-307522'>\n\t\t\t\tA\u00e7a\u00ed as it is consumed in the North region of Brazil: With fish, as a main course.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/culture-adds-value-to-brazilian-food-says-thiago-castanho\/whatsapp-image-2022-02-18-at-16-25-06-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-18-at-16.25.06-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-307516\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-307516\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-307516'>\n\t\t\t\tPamonha and arapaima [pirarucu] were the starters.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/culture-adds-value-to-brazilian-food-says-thiago-castanho\/whatsapp-image-2022-02-18-at-16-27-01-2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-18-at-16.27.01-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-307525\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-307525\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-307525'>\n\t\t\t\tThe menu also featured plantain gnocchi and butter bean salad.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/culture-adds-value-to-brazilian-food-says-thiago-castanho\/whatsapp-image-2022-02-18-at-16-27-02-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-02-18-at-16.27.02-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-307528\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-307528\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-307528'>\n\t\t\t\tDessert? Amazonian cocoa and cupua\u00e7u.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>From Brazil, the chef brought cassava-based products, such as tucupi. And the presentation was filled with references and content in videos and photos from cultivation to food processing by people from Par\u00e1. \u201cMy purpose is to showcase. If you show the culture, you have a value; you can add it. You can make more people produce chocolate or manufacture a\u00e7a\u00ed in our region the way it should. It\u2019s easier to make <em>fair trade<\/em> when you know the basics.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Read also: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/from-para-to-dubai-brazilians-show-origins-of-acai-berry\/\">From Par\u00e1 to Dubai: Brazilians show origins of a\u00e7a\u00ed berry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The menu included a starter of rice pamonha in a banana leaf with arapaima and shrimp moqueca, a main course of arapaima, butter bean salad and plantain gnocchi, and dessert of Amazonian chocolate mousse with cupua\u00e7u and cocoa crunch jelly. And one of the highlights, the extra dish was fried fish with a\u00e7a\u00ed, served in the original way of the North of the country. \u201cI showed a\u00e7a\u00ed as it is for us, as food. It is the main dish, which accompanies salted fish, as it is in Par\u00e1. It\u2019s good for people to know that,\u201d Castanho recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The chef intends to continue living and working in Bel\u00e9m, the capital of Par\u00e1, amid the forest and the city that inspires him. It is there he will open his new venture, BaYuca. \u201cI like to have roots in the Amazon and my feet in the world. So, I\u2019m here in Dubai talking about the Amazon. I go back to my house, I feel good, then I want to travel again and come back. That\u2019s it,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The cooking shows are organized by the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), with the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) support. The Brazil Pavilion continues with other events in its schedule until the end of Expo 2020, in March. In the coming days, there will be an event dedicated to a food that is also a symbol and basis of the diet of many Brazilians, cassava.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-307534\">Thais Sousa\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the chef, who specializes in cuisine from the state of Par\u00e1, it is by showing its culture the country will be able to add value to its food. 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