A trip to Brazil's Copacabana Beach may not be in the cards, but you might hear Samba music playing when you sip a cocktail made with cachaça, the South American country's national spirit. Not ...

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Not to be confused with rum, this sugarcane-based spirit is more than just an ingredient in your Caipirinha cocktail. Bryan Gardner Cachaça is a distilled spirit with a rich history and a flavor ...

The elimination rounds of the World Cup have begun, meaning that every match will be fought until one team emerges victorious and another defeated. For the losing team, it is a sobering journey home, ...

If summer is for bottomless caipirinhas, winter is all about warming quentão. Here are recipes for both. If it’s not made with cachaça, it’s not a caipirinha.Credit...Bobbi Lin for The New York Times.

I did not go to Rio for the mist. But as I walked along the curve of Ipanema beach my first morning there, the sky was the color of a nickel and was drizzling down a fine, weightless rain. It had sent ...

Outside of Brazil (where it is the best-selling spirit), cachaça is best known for its starring role in the caipirinha—a simple three-ingredient, lime-infused cocktail. Rum drinkers will find cachaça ...

A genuine Brazilian drink, cachaça is the spirit most consumed in the country and the third in the world. The caipirinha drink (cachaça, sugar, lime and ice) is on the menu of bars and restaurants of ...

Rafael Tonon is an award-winning journalist, writer, curator, and researcher, covering food trends and the restaurant industry in Brazil and Portugal for Slate, The Washington Post, Epicurious, Atlas ...

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