Festas Junina Essay

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Table 1: Some typical foods and beverages encountered at most Festas Juninas.

Name in portuguese Description
Canjica or Munguzá Porridge made with Canjica corn (white variety of corn),milk, cinnamon and condensed milk
Pamonha Paste made from sweet corn and milk, boiled wrapped in corn husks. Pamonha can be savoury or sweet.
Pé-de-moleque Original recipe: corn flour, molasses and peanuts;
Recipe today: peanuts, rapadura or sugar.
Paçoca Brazilian candy made out of ground peanuts, sugar and salt.

However, with the development and change of food habits, new dishes are being incorporated to the traditions in the contemporary times, which are the case of food encountered at carnivals and other festivities across the globe, such as the barbecue. …show more content…

May be filled with many fillings (sweet or savory), but the most common are mozzarella or ground beef.

4. Festa Junina Nowadays
In contemporary times, we can observe a process of spectacularization and touristification of the June festivities in some Brazilian cities, especially in the Brazilian Northeast, which perform festive events of large physical proportions and with a strong factor of media coverage of its realization.
With the crescent globalization and the increase in the interest in gastronomy in the Brazilians, new food trends have been emerging in the country, leading to a transformation of ‘normal food’ to ‘gourmet food’.
In an article published by Folha de São Paulo, one of the leading Brazilian newspapers, in the month of June, the journalist Patrícia Britto reports that in the festa junina of Campina Grande, called the ‘O Maior São João do Mundo’ ( world's largest Saint John's Festival), the “junines delicacies are exchanged for Japanese, Arabic and Mexican food” .

5. Centro de Tradições

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