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Lunch & a Drive
Let's try to find the "pumpkin" restaurant in Olinda. . .
Other than the sign, it was just another of the painted buildings on a long hillside street :). (Note all the electric wires again.)
Oficina do Sabor
The restaurant name translates into "taste workshop." It was a valuable asset to have our son as our tour guide, especially having "gone before" in order to have an itinerary for us. I had seen several of his restaurant photos through the years of how Brazilians serve shrimp or chicken in a cheese sauce, in an entire pumpkin (about 8" diameter for 2 . . . not our gigantic ones for carving, ALTHO!!! -- thinking about it, if you took out all the racks in the oven & baked the pumpkin to al dente, & were making the dish to "feed a crowd," it would be quite spectacular!) I googled "brazilian shrimp in cheese sauce in a pumpkin" & there are many recipes to learn about the process.
If it wasn't for the hanging sign, you'd never know from the street front that this breezy open-air restaurant is here!
With appreciation to the smiling staff, we head off on to the streets to get a view of the town.
The church above was not open, but it was neat to swing around the wall to see the facade. Our destination was the following: Catholic Basilica and Monastery of St. Benedict, Olinda - Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil (below)
Carved so many layers deep ~ One wonders, "How deep is your faith?" And, "Is it based on the Bible & by & with Jesus, as God tells us in His autobiography, so you'll go to Heaven?"
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