The sweet flavors, apparently comes from the East. It was spread by the moors all over the world. Before sugar processed from sugar cane, the Arabs left in Portugal the heritage of honey-based sweets, that can be considered the oldest intrinsically sweet substance ever known.

Son of Manuel Gomes da Silva and Firmina Cleto, Cristino Gomes da Silva Cleto – later known as Corisco - was born in 1907, in the town of Matinha de Água Branca, in the State of Alagoas.

Despite the controversies about the place of birth of the Indian Antonio Felipe Camarão, it is established that he was born in Pernambuco, in 1600 or 1601.

Some academics believe the name came from a corruption of the expression for all, used by the English to invite the workers on the construction of the Northeast Brazilrailways, during the time of Great Western, to participate in the parties they had.

Macambira is present in the caatingas of Northeast Brazil, from Bahia to Piauí. The herbaceous plant from the Bromeliaceae family, which grows under trees or in clearings, has thin and superficial roots, leaves that can reach more than one metre long by twenty centimetres wide, hard thorns.