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 Brazilian cuisine
expert Yara Castro Roberts, an Emmy award nominee host for PBS-WGBH
cooking show series, conducts the Brazilian Cuisine Seminars in
Ouro Preto, Brazil. The week
features hands-on Brazilian cuisine with dishes from Minas Gerais,
Bahia and the Amazonas regions, field trips to neighboring coffee
plantations, sugar cane distillery, fine dining and cultural
activities. The seminars focus on Brazilian culinary art and its
relationship with various aspects of Brazilian cultural life.
The academy is located in Ouro Preto, a 17th century colonial town in the mountains of Minas Gerais. It is one of the world's best preserved examples of colonial baroque architecture offering a number of local festivals and historical celebrations.
The cooking classes are filled with savory recipes and enriched with information on history, art, music, and literature as well as the social aspects relevant to the culture. The classes include Minas Gerais cookery, Brazilian pastries followed by a Brazilian traditional "high coffee", the cookery of Bahia, the cookery of the Amazon with dinners at Le Coz D'Or with Chef Milton Schneider and Casa do Ouvidor with Chef Goncalves. Dr. Maocyr Laterza takes students on a walking tour of Ouro Preto, Baroque art and architecture. Not to be missed is a musical performance by classical musicians performing an outdoor "Serenata". |
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Yara began her culinary education as
a young girl, learning from her mother who was a chef and owned a
cooking school. She graduated from Boson University Culinary Arts,
has degrees in History of Art from the Ecole du Louvre and
Education from the Sorbonne in Paris. Yara is quadrilingual in
Portuguese, French, Spanish, and English and speaks some Italian
and Russian. She is a vivacious and seemingly inexhaustible
ambassador for food and other things Brazilian, making the classes
most enjoyable and informative. 
