Last Wednesday I finally had the pleaser to share the kitchen with one of the most inspring woman on this planet: Regina Tchelly from Favela Organica. Her company has roots in the favela of Babilonia in Leme, Rio de Janeiro. In 2011 with only 70 € of investment she opened her space with the purpose of modify the relationship with food of the surrounding inhabitants, to avoid waste and care for the limited green space of the favela.
This night I decided to cook with exclusively local ingredients that are grown in the fields close to the city. The recipe was a rice pudding cooked in coconut water and a tempura of pumpkin, chuchu, avocado and tropical spinach, covered with nuts and a very spicy sauce.
Next to our culinary feast we also could enjoy the teas and the cosmetics made by Martha Pedalino from Cha Dao and the launch of the book from Ingrid Hampke, called 'Polifinias Marginais', briefly about the process of creation of, as they named it, 'black marginal and suburb literature'.
A great and memorable night .....
