Ferronlandia

The snacks here are so damn good that I’m going to have to break them up into categories. First up, beach snacks. My first few days in Rio were spent mostly on the beaches of Leblon and Ipanema and I was immediately enamored by the limitless number of goodies being sold at the beach (ok, [...]

From the streets of Rio and Rancagua:

“Favela is a plant that grows up on the hills, so when people used to come to the flats to work they said they lived where the favela grows. The name stuck.” -Nildo Rocinha, literally meaning “little ranch”, has grown from a community of small farms to the largest favela in Brazil, housing something like [...]