"The exoticism of Amazonian cuisine ends in the first spoonful": chef Débora Shornik | Video

Manaus (Brazil), June 20 (EFE).- The Brazilian chef Débora Shornik, with a career that began in São Paulo and was consolidated during her time in several restaurants, found in the Amazon an inexhaustible source of inspiration that she has been transmitting for eight years at Caxiri, located in Manaus .

Camera: Laura Rodriguez.

STATEMENT BY DÉBORA SHORNIK, BRAZILIAN CHEF.

It is different. It actually looks more different than it is. It's different from what we know. But I often say that the strangeness ends with the first bite.

I started cooking with the women who worked with me, who I came to teach to make food from the south and southeast, and they taught me the food from the north, that is, the ingredients with their uses, their histories, their techniques. So I learned everything from them.

I experienced it, you know? I never said, "I'm going to open an Amazonian restaurant."

When you talk about valuing Amazon ingredients, who do you mean? To those who can afford it or those who live here and need to eat.

It's no longer local food, it's sold. It's not surplus production. They start producing to sell. So there are shortages at home, but they have those products in São Paulo.

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Date: 20/06/2024 13:02 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Economy, business and finance
Lifestyle and leisure » Gastronomy
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 181 seconds
Reference: 55013929013
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