Street Stall · Cornmeal Bread
Broa de Fubá
Photo: Wagner Tamanaha from Sao Paulo, Brazil / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Portugal already had a cornbread called broa, made with maize from the Americas; in Minas it became a softer, cake-like version often flavoured with fennel seed.
A dense, faintly sweet cornmeal bread, sold warm in thick wedges at market stalls and roadside bakeries across Minas Gerais. It's often eaten plain with coffee rather than as a sandwich.
Why it's made this way: Minas Gerais' inland farms grew corn far more easily than wheat, and the Portuguese broa tradition turned into this softer Mineiro cornmeal bread.
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