FEIJOADA Definition & Meaning

feijoada

[ Portuguese fey-zhoo-ah-dah; English fey-jwah-duh ]

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noun

Brazilian Cooking.

a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of feijoada¹

< Brazilian Portuguese, derivative of Portuguese �ڱ��ã�� bean, earlier feijoes (plural) < Latin faseolus, diminutive of �ڲ��ŧ��ܲ� a legume, perhaps the cowpea < Greek ��á��ŧ��ǲ�; -ade ¹

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And that Wednesday had been pretty normal: He worked from home running his sales business while cooking a simmering pot of feijoada.

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“It’s important to show that there’s more to Brazilian food than feijoada and churrasco,” she said during a brief visit to New York last month.

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