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| Copyright: PauloShadow Shadow (PauloShadow) (52) |
| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-09-25 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/60 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-02-23 16:36 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Portuguese] |
| Brasiliense Caryocar; Caryocaraceae) is a native fruit of the Brazilian open pasture, much used in the kitchen northeastern, of the center-west and north of Minas Gerais. Of it oil of pequi is extraido a called oil. Its fruits also are consumed cooked, pure or together with rice and chicken. Its caroço is endowed with many thorns, and has very well-taken care of necessity of when gnawing the fruit, preventing to cravar in it teeth, what it can cause serious wounds in the gengivas. The flavor and the aroma of the fruits are very marcantes and peculiar. Maximum symbol of the goianidade, the Pequi, tree of the family of the cariocáceas can also be found in all the region Center-West (considered the capital of the fruit) and in the states of Rondônia (to the east), Minas Gerais (north and west), Pará (southwestern), Tocantins, Maranhão (extreme south), Piauí (extreme south), Bahia (west) and Ceará (South). The spite of being found in all these places, is only in Goiás that can be found all the species, whose fruition occurs enters the months of September and February. Given its great importance for the majority of the goianos, it it can in such a way be conserved in essence how much in conserve. Its history of love with the goiana culinária started has centuries, in the old villages of Half Bridge (today Pirenópolis), and Good Village (City of Goiás), still in the beginning of century XVIII. In the region that cercunda the industrial city of Catalan, the Pequi was used so only for the manufacture of the lendário Soap of Pequi, of recognized therapeutical properties. The fruit can be degustado of the most varied forms: stew, in the rice, the chicken, with pasta, fish, meats, in milk, and the form of one of the most appreciated liquors of Goiás. To eat pequi beyond healthful and pleasant, is a science, almost an art: its soft and flavorful pulp must be com.cuidado food, a time that the same one recovers a layer of terrible thorns, that, if bitten are fincam in the language and the sky of the mouth, provoking pains. The flavor, however, valley the risk. Risk this that leaves to exist, an assimilated time the degustation technique that is of easy learning. |
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