a special dish that combines both the smoked and salted beef and pork, are thrown into a deliciously seasoned black bean stew called feijoada - this is typically served at lunchtime on saturdays.

in fact, lunchtime is perhaps the most important meal of the day - the world seems to stop in rio so that a hearty meal can be happily enjoyed - in fact, most carioca's gather together at each other's homes every week or so just to catch up and enjoy each other's company during the day.

the brazilian barbeque, or churrasco, actually began based around the lunchtime tradition and is an experience not to be missed - occuring so often that it should never be a problem to find one with so many steakhouses around called churrascaria's.