Richard
Im doing a report for a food class and I chose Brazil. There is not much info on the net for some of the stuff I am looking for so hopefully someone can help.
What are the table appointments at the dinner tabel? (Such as is the man always at the head? Do women serve the men first? Chidren eat first? Who gets the largest portion?, etc...)
Is there a certain etiquette at the dinner table?
Who and when is the food prepared?
Are these different depending on the region your in?
Thanks for any help you can give!
Answer
Yes, the brazilian dinner set up has untill now some french details, but usually in the "A' la carte" restaurants (French service or English service).
At home we like to use the Brazilian Service (serviço à brasileira), but some restaurants do the same in the brazilian regional tipic ones.
We don't like anybody serving our plates. The maid usually sleeps and cook in our home (It is easy to have one) or she can come every day (not sundays, our favorite family and relatives lunch day).
She set up the table as in the english service, one glass for water or juice, the fork on the right...but the food is on the table and sometime the women likes to serve the man or children, SOMETIMEs. The idea is "don't be shy".
The most tradicional familys like when the maid does the indirect English service. When the food is served on your right. The man of the house has a specifc chair, but the women should sit on the right chair.
Everybody in a modern family can sit wherever they want, but sometimes the brothers and sisters like to fight for the best place, haha. And sometime the father has his favorite place (even in the modern familys the man can be the head).
The first pice of a birthday cake you must give to the oldest woman in your family or your to your mother. You can give to someone special if you have a specifc thing to say.
Our BBQ party is meat, not hot-dogs! We like "farofa" (flow) and Vinagrete (salad).
The "feijoada" (beans, vegetables and others partys of the cow or pork) is very popular too, we eat with rice and "farofa".
The meat, the beens, rice, vegetables, juice and organic things are cheeper here and we like to have every single day.
Yes, the brazilian dinner set up has untill now some french details, but usually in the "A' la carte" restaurants (French service or English service).
At home we like to use the Brazilian Service (serviço à brasileira), but some restaurants do the same in the brazilian regional tipic ones.
We don't like anybody serving our plates. The maid usually sleeps and cook in our home (It is easy to have one) or she can come every day (not sundays, our favorite family and relatives lunch day).
She set up the table as in the english service, one glass for water or juice, the fork on the right...but the food is on the table and sometime the women likes to serve the man or children, SOMETIMEs. The idea is "don't be shy".
The most tradicional familys like when the maid does the indirect English service. When the food is served on your right. The man of the house has a specifc chair, but the women should sit on the right chair.
Everybody in a modern family can sit wherever they want, but sometimes the brothers and sisters like to fight for the best place, haha. And sometime the father has his favorite place (even in the modern familys the man can be the head).
The first pice of a birthday cake you must give to the oldest woman in your family or your to your mother. You can give to someone special if you have a specifc thing to say.
Our BBQ party is meat, not hot-dogs! We like "farofa" (flow) and Vinagrete (salad).
The "feijoada" (beans, vegetables and others partys of the cow or pork) is very popular too, we eat with rice and "farofa".
The meat, the beens, rice, vegetables, juice and organic things are cheeper here and we like to have every single day.
Dinner table setting ?
Enigmatic
I'm having a birthday dinner/party for my daughter. There's around 40 guests that are invited. I dont want to spend all evening in the kitchen cleaning and miss out on her party. Dinner is going to be buffet style. I'm cooking a variety of dishes. Would it be ok if I serve the food in aluminium serving pans? Everytime I attend others dinner parties their's so much effort put into everything, including what the food is served on.
Answer
It's okay, but not too classy. You already knew that, or you wouldn't be asking. Whether it's acceptable depends to some extent on the tone of the party. If it's a bunch of kids, very casual, I wouldn't worry about it too much. If it's a more formal affair, with neighbours, grandmothers, aunts and uncles, I'd prefer to use real dishes.
Several solutions come to mind. There is no real need to spend all evening in the kitchen cleaning. It doesn't all have to be cleaned the same night. Scrape and rinse off the worst of the mess right away, store any leftovers, put what can go in the dishwasher in there, pile the rest to clean it the next day. Hide it in the oven if you want the kitchen tidy. Put it in garbage bags in cardboard boxes and shove it into a storage space overnight.
Get a paid helper. Do you know anyone with a cleaning lady who'd like a little extra work? I'd say hire a teenager, but you can't ask one who's attending the party, and it would be a bit funny to have a classmate working in your house with other classmates at the party. Maybe a college student could help. Many colleges have an office that deals with students who want work. Call a local catering service and ask if they can provide someone for a few hours. It won't be expensive, and probably not much compared to the cost of the rest of the party.
Enlist a few of your daughter's closest friends, or other children in the household, to help with the immediate cleanup. If there are a few of them it won't take long, they'll have fun doing it all together, and it won't kill them to miss a half hour or so of the party. Pay them if you like. You'll have to decide on that based on who's available and your relationship with them. Have the people who are cleaning serve themselves first at the buffet, so they can be finished eating by the time the cleanup has to start.
It's okay, but not too classy. You already knew that, or you wouldn't be asking. Whether it's acceptable depends to some extent on the tone of the party. If it's a bunch of kids, very casual, I wouldn't worry about it too much. If it's a more formal affair, with neighbours, grandmothers, aunts and uncles, I'd prefer to use real dishes.
Several solutions come to mind. There is no real need to spend all evening in the kitchen cleaning. It doesn't all have to be cleaned the same night. Scrape and rinse off the worst of the mess right away, store any leftovers, put what can go in the dishwasher in there, pile the rest to clean it the next day. Hide it in the oven if you want the kitchen tidy. Put it in garbage bags in cardboard boxes and shove it into a storage space overnight.
Get a paid helper. Do you know anyone with a cleaning lady who'd like a little extra work? I'd say hire a teenager, but you can't ask one who's attending the party, and it would be a bit funny to have a classmate working in your house with other classmates at the party. Maybe a college student could help. Many colleges have an office that deals with students who want work. Call a local catering service and ask if they can provide someone for a few hours. It won't be expensive, and probably not much compared to the cost of the rest of the party.
Enlist a few of your daughter's closest friends, or other children in the household, to help with the immediate cleanup. If there are a few of them it won't take long, they'll have fun doing it all together, and it won't kill them to miss a half hour or so of the party. Pay them if you like. You'll have to decide on that based on who's available and your relationship with them. Have the people who are cleaning serve themselves first at the buffet, so they can be finished eating by the time the cleanup has to start.
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