Some times I reard a frase our a coment and start to think about this.
I was looking the interview off a brazilian chef Alex Atala and he said that the world think that tapioca is an asian plant. And banana is a american plant.
Tapioca is a brazilian plant used for long time by the indians.
Thinking this I started with a research off asian food witn tapioca and found the vietnam Ban Bot Loc.
The base off Ban Loc Boc is an tapioca translucedent pasta, like a cristal ravioli.
Starting with this I thinked in a brazilian dish, The moqueca.
Is a tradicional dish with 2 versions, a Moqueca Baiana and Moqueca Capixaba. The Moqueca Baiana use coconut milk and the Capixaba not.
I made the Moqueca Capixaba, and wrapped in the tapioca pasta.
Made a Dende Oil farofa (another conversation) and a coconut, moqueca stock with xantana gun.
In this case I started with an ingredient, and an ideia to say a history with my food.
