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Discover the vibrant flavors and stories that define Brazil in this 3-day culinary journey through Rio. Day 1 – Choose Your Beginning: Start your adventure your way. Join a hands-on cooking class in Ipanema (5 p.m.) and prepare 9 recipes like picanha steak or Bahian moqueca, sipping caipirinhas as you cook. Or explore a fruit tasting in a local market (10 a.m.), trying 15–20 exotic fruits - from creamy cashew apple to tangy açaí - while learning their stories. Day 2 – Taste of 33 Brazilian Flavors Savor Brazil’s culinary diversity in this guided tasting session, each with a story shared by your local guide. (Starts at 5 p.m.) Day 3 – Food Crawl in Lapa Spend the afternoon tasting snacks, caipirinhas, and craft beers across Rio’s most vibrant neighborhood. (1 p.m.) By the end, you won’t just have eaten in Rio - you’ll have lived it. And if your experience isn’t five stars, you don’t pay for a four-star night! Your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Brazil and its cuisine are a wild and sometimes baffling stew of influences and cultures – and Rio’s old city and port zone are where many of the country’s disparate elements deliciously converge. These atmospheric neighborhoods are where the Portuguese began building the city, where the enslaved Africans who were brought over to Brazil first landed, where samba was born and – most importantly – where this bustling metropolis’s multicultural identity and food culture started taking shape. On this tour we trace that history through its food, meeting the people who are keeping Brazil’s culinary traditions alive and those who are creating exciting new ones.