Feijoada(Brazilian Beans with Smoked Pork, Rice and Collards)

Amerique du Sud - Brasil

Feijoada(Brazilian Beans with Smoked Pork, Rice and Collards)

This hearty dish of beans and pork is the quintessential Brazilian comfort food. It is traditionally served with garlic rice, sautéed collard greens, a tangy vinaigrette, and farofa, toasted cassava flour.

Cachaca

Cachaça (pronouncedkah-SHAH-sah) is a distilled spirit from Brazil that is a style ofrum. The difference is that cachaça is made from sugar cane juice where rum uses molasses.

Cachaça is made exclusively in Brazil and is very popular in that country where it is commonly referred to as "pinga" and was often thought a poor man's drink.

Afrique du Nord – le Maghreb (Maroc, Tunisie, Algérie)

Moroccan Roasted Pepper and Tomato Salad(Tchoutchouka)

Tchouktchouka is as traditional a Moroccan dish as traditional can get. Dip your bread in it, serve it as a side dish, sandwich spread or Moroccan-style bruschetta on crusty whole-grain bread. It is guaranteed delicious any way you choose to eat it and well worth a try!

Boukha(بوخة) is adistilled beverageproduced fromfigs. It originated inTunisia, where most of it is still produced. Its name means 'alcohol vapor' inJudeo-Tunisian Arabicdialect. It is obtained by simple distillation of Mediterranean figs.

Afrique Noire - Cameroun

N’Dole (Steak and Collard greens) (Cameroon)

Ndolé is the dish of Cameroon. The dish consists of a stew of nuts, ndoleh, and fish or beef. The dish may also contain shrimps or prawns. It can be eaten with anything from rice to plantain to bobolo

Kwata

Popular home-brewed beverages include millet (bilibili) and corn (kwatcha) beer.

Sud de l’Europe – Espagne

Paella is currently an internationally-known rice dish from Spain. It originated in the fields of a region called Valencia on the eastern coast of Spain. Todaypaellais made in every region of Spain, using just about any kind of ingredient that goes well with rice. There are as many versions ofpaellaas there are cooks. It may contain chicken, pork, shellfish, fish, eel, squid, beans, peas, artichokes or peppers. Saffron, the spice that also turns the rice a wonderful golden color is an essential part of the dish.

Agua de Valencia

Acocktailmade from a base ofcavaorchampagne,orange juice,vodka, andgin. In general, it is served in pitchers of various sizes and is drunk in a broad cocktail glass.

Iberian Peninsula (Espagne, Portugal, Andorre)

The Iberian Peninsula, commonly called Iberia, is the third largest European peninsula; it is located in the extreme southwest of the continent.

Quelques Grands Ecrivains Français (AKA “la langue de Voltaire”)

Jean-JacquesRousseau (1712-1778)

·  Les Confessions(1765-1770)

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)

·  1886: publication dansLa Voguede trente-septIlluminations.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

·  (The Contemplations) is a collection of poetry byVictor Hugo, published in1856

Charles Perrault (1628-1703)

·  Cinderella, orThe Little Glass Slipper(French:Cendrillon, ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre,Italian:Cenerentola,German:Aschenputtel), is a Europeanfolk taleembodying amyth-element of unjust oppression inHistoires ou contes du temps passépublished byCharles Perraultin 1697,[1]and by theBrothers Grimmin their folk tale collectionGrimms' Fairy Tales.

François Marie Arouet ditVoltaire(1694-1778) est la figure qui incarne dans sa plénitude lesiècle des Lumières. Pour résumer la pensée voltairienne: «Dans une République digne de ce nom, la liberté de publier ses pensées est le droit naturel du citoyen». (Lire la suite surhttp://www.etudes-litteraires.com/voltaire.php)

·  Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.