This morning Kevin and I decided to take the cooking class. This involved going with Christina to meet a local chef, at a local market to see what was available. Great seafood. We then went to his apartment where he showed us how to make Moqueca - a dish of shrimp cooked in coconut milk and palm oil. This was accompanied with Farofa, a toasted cassava flour, and rice. For desert we had tropical fruits flambe’d in cachaça. It was all fun and delicious. But what is this cachaça stuff? It turns out to be a spirit made from sugar cane, but not like rum. It is the most popular spirit in Brazil and the vital ingredient in Caipirinha, Brazil’s mational cocktail. Bruno, our chef, made us one and it was dangerously delicious. One was enough!
Here’s Bruno.
After lunch we had some time off before the evening’s big event - Samba!
Around 6pm we went to a Samba bar, Leviano. Christina brought along a couple of her Samba friends who would teach us how to do it.
Two Caipirinha’s later we were dancing with the best of them!
But not quite as well as the pros.
Thanks whoever took this photo and shared it.
Things got pretty sweaty as the night wore on.
Reluctantly, at around 9pm we left and returned to the hotel for our farewell dinner. Tomorrow we would be going home so this was a fitting end to the journey.