Into the BR 040

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

WORLDWIDE | Tuesday, 8 November 2011 | Views [167]

Living away from his motherland for the past 5 years, Henrique told me that whenever he felt “saudade”, also described as a kind of nostalgia, he would cope by trying to evoke a familiar taste or smell. The most soothing was that of the strong spicy taste of every meal, cooked slowly in a wood-burning stove.

We had been travelling across Brazil for the past month, but for Henrique there was only a place we couldn’t miss: the land where his father had been born and raised. The same place where he had spent his youth. So we travelled away from the cities, into the countryside, the “cerrado”, crossing the BR 040.

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Lunch was being prepared when we arrived. We were greeted with open smiles and Henrique was asked if he still liked chicken with “corante”, a kind of paprika - he certainly did. The “corante”, which literally means coloring, gets its name from the intense coloring it gives to the food it garnishes. It was grown in the backyard.

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Into the BR 040

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

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