“It’s a bread meant to be eaten fresh out of the oven,” says Bruna Piauí Graf, founder of Bruna’s Cheese Bread. “It can be good later, but I don’t suggest that.” Brazilian pÁ£o de queijo – or cheese ...
Whenever my nationality is brought up in a conversation with a new acquaintance, I often catch a glimpse at how mysterious Brazilian culture can be to those who have never researched beyond World Cup ...
Brazilian cheese bread, or pão de queijo, is much more difficult to pronounce than it is to prepare. The closest phonetic approximation I can come up with is pawn-dehj-kay-sho, but somehow that still ...
The holidays are frantic times, full of hustle and bustle and cocktail parties and big dinners. It’s also a time of high anxiety for a lot of people — it’s the one time of year even folks who can’t ...
Cheese and carbs have never been a tough sell, but if you’ve ever had a stretchy, springy bite of pão de queijo (a Brazilian cheese bread puff) then you know that this simple combination can soar to ...
When Priscilla Peterka moved from Brazil to Wisconsin in 2003, she looked for some of her favorite foods in grocery stores. She especially missed pao de queijo, a traditional cheese bread that is ...
It takes guts — and a belief in your product — to switch careers from engineer to pastry chef. But that's exactly what Scarsdale resident (and mom of two) Carolina Figueiredo did when she opened ...
This frozen appetizer that you can often find in the freezer aisle at Costco earned much of its popularity on Shark Tank; ...
Of the many delicious Brazilian foods there are to try, pão de queijo is one of the most mouthwatering dishes. These little balls of cheesy bread have a crisp exterior to crack into, giving way to a ...