There was in Recife, in the mid-20th Century, a floating restaurant on the waters of the Capibaribe River.  Built on a wooden platform resting on 200-litre metallic drums, the restaurant was in fact a barge that had a wooden dining hall with windows and a gangway.

The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is a palm tree from Africa that grows well in tropical regions with hot and humid weather. For over 5,000 years, Egyptians have consumed the plant’s oil.

Both the country’s native Indians and the black Africans who came as slaves consumed peppers in abundance. The former ate them dry or crushed with manioc flour (quya). With the arrival of the African slaves to Northeast Brazil.

The typical cuisine of Pernambuco was created in the Indian villages, in the manor houses and slave quarters of sugarcane plantations, in the kitchens of monasteries, in the yards of Xangô and on the shoreline.

Popular beliefs and traditions have been passed down from generation to generation through observation and records made by travellers, missionaries, folklorists, ethnologists and other researchers concerned with the subject.