Cachaça is very fun to say out loud. Kay-Cha-SA! It’s also very fun to drink. Generally, people outside of Brazil know of cachaça thanks to long summer nights spent drinking it in the lime and sugar ...

I did not go to Rio for the mist. But as I walked along the curve of Ipanema beach my first morning there, the sky was the color of a nickel and was drizzling down a fine, weightless rain. It had sent ...

Mexico has tequila. Colombia has aguardiente. Cuba has rum. Brazil’s spirit goes by the name of cachaça, a rum-like liquor steeped in history. Unlike much rum, it is not made from molasses but from ...

The elimination rounds of the World Cup have begun, meaning that every match will be fought until one team emerges victorious and another defeated. For the losing team, it is a sobering journey home, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Claudia Alarcón covers food, drinks and travel in places near and far. This article is more than 6 years old. I fell in love with ...

Rafael Tonon is an award-winning journalist, writer, curator, and researcher, covering food trends and the restaurant industry in Brazil and Portugal for Slate, The Washington Post, Epicurious, Atlas ...

Rum is one of the most well-known and widely consumed liquors around. Whether you want to sip on a tart daiquiri or a tropical hurricane, or even if you want a sophisticated spirit-forward cocktail, ...