Cachaça, Um Amor Brasileiro

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author = Alessandra Garcia Trindade
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language = Portuguese
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publisher = Melhoramentos Press
pub_date = 2004
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pages = 160
isbn = 85-06-04813-3
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"Cachaça, Um Amor Brasileiro" (English: "Cachaça, a Brazilian Love") is a 2004 non-fiction book written by Alessandra Garcia Trindade and published by Melhoramentos Press, which details the history and process behind the production of the Brazilian traditional alcoholic beverage cachaça.

To write the definitive guide to cachaça, the author visited farmers, producers and researchers of the beverage, taking care to keep the book accessible and easy to read. [ [http://guiadasemana.uol.com.br/livro.asp?ID=9&cd_book=235 Livros: Cachaça, um amor brasileiro] , Universo Online.] She also reviewed historical documents from different databases in several states of the country. According to the book, cachaça is the second most consumed beverage in Brazil, second only to beer. The author reveals that the national production actually overcomes 1.3 billion litres/year, as well, and enriches the publication with a vast series of trade/economical data that highlights the huge importance of this beverage to Brazilian economy and history.

The book details the different names given to cachaça in to different regions of the country, such as "água-benta", "danada", "água que passarinho não bebe", "malvada", amongst others.

There is also a specific chapter describing specifically the main dishes and drinks made with cachaça, which clearly shows that this beverage has actually a sophisticated "status" in the market, despite what happened in the past.

A vast number of Brazilian readers all along the country describes this book as the major and most complete publication concerned about cachaça history and production.

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