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>> eduardo maya: sports. >> luiz otavio: women. >> eduardo maya: food. >> luiz otavio: food. >> anthony: eduardo had previous incarnations as a banker and then as an entrepreneur. but he threw it all out in 2000 to start the comida do buteco, an annual competition for botecos. it's a big deal here and it raised botecos from male-dominated, dirty glass joints to the centerpiece of the minera social scene. so what's on the menu? >> eduardo maya: boteco in minas is a bit like the italians. we eat a lot of pork here. an important thing about the boteco in minas is that they serve real food -- food...

It's about the size of france, covered by farmland, mountains, and savannah. belo horizonte is the capital, a center for the brazilian banking and tech industry. a planned city. built in the late 1800s. five million people live in the metropolitan area. it's one of the fastest growing cities in brazil, in the world in fact, yet it's still relatively unknown in the outside world. but if you travel through brazil and you talk about food, which i have and i do, you hear about this place. you hear about it seemingly a lot. i've been told time and again, this is where the best chefs come from. the ...

>> anthony: the story of minera cuisine, you could argue, starts with a gold rush. the world's first, in fact. in the late 1600s, alluvial gold was found in the mountainous rivers of minas. over the next hundred-plus years, while portuguese masters fanned themselves on the riverbanks, african slaves sifted billions in gold from the mud and earth. by the end of the 19th century, the deposits were exhausted and about half a million africans had been forced to make this country their home. now brazil has the largest african diaspora in the world. and though brazil remains a country of rampant ine...

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