From the depths of Florianópolis bay to São Paulo tables. In Florianópolis it’s known for at least 250 years as “Berbigão”, a popular food among the poor crowd, eaten during the starving times. Meanwhile, the Neapolitans were arriving in São Paulo, Brazil, missing their typical food such as Spaghetti alle Vongole – made with a shellfish very similar to the brazilian one – They didn’t find their vongole in the new seas, but they liked the "Berbigão" flavour, which keeping its shell on and placed on a plate of spaghetti plus a foreign name stepped up to higher levels, it became a very refined dish. The Brazilian vongole is very easy to catch and its extraction is made by small fishers' families. Recently it joined the Ark of Taste, a Slow Food project that was launched to rediscover, catalog and promote foods which are at risk of extinction, but have productive and commercial potential and are closely linked to specific communities and cultures. Today the Ark lists more than 900 unique foods from 50 countries around the world that are threatened by industrial standardization.
Pics @ Slow Food Brasil
