>>212690559
German travelers Spix and Martius, 1817: “The São Paulo people are rightly considered to be the strongest, healthiest and most energetic inhabitant of Brazil. The muscular vigor with which they tame wild horses and wild cattle by lassoes is as wonderful as the ease with which they endure continuous work, hunger and thirst, cold and heat, hard weather and deprivations of all sorts. Many white settlers have also established themselves here. In the past, the captaincy of São Paulo, then called São Vicente, was sought after by many Spaniards. Many Paulistas have remained without mixing with the indigenous people and are as white—even fairer—than the pure European colonists in the northern provinces of Brazil. The São Paulo inhabitants have, throughout Brazil, a reputation of great honesty, courage and a romantic taste for adventure, their pride can only be excused because the deeds of their ancestors grant them rights over the new continent that the European colonist does not possess.”

>>212397055
>Sua culinária gira em torno de trigo quebrado (bulgur), grão-de-bico, lentilhas, iogurte, ayran e carne de cordeiro. Não há muitos vegetais, frutas e especiarias. E nada de frutos do mar.
Kino. A cultura caipira também é interiorizada e é isso que nos faz especiais.