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Hopefully we'll get pictures from CentroAmerica.

Will tacos and mashed taters be served at the reception?

http://flavorsofbrazil.blogspot.in/2010/10/picadinho-brazils-second-favorite-dish.html

Picadinho – Brazil’s Second-favorite dish
Article first published as Picadinho - Brazil's Second-favorite dish on Blogcritics.

There’s no such thing as a National Dish. Most countries have a National Bird, a National Symbol and a National Anthem, all establish by act of law, but in most regions of the globe legislators have other things on their minds than arguing about what dish best represents their national spirit. That’s not to say that there’s no such thing as a small-case national dish – one that almost everyone inside a country holds dear, and one that foreigners associate with that country. Think Greece and moussaka, or India and curry. In that sense, few would deny that Brazil’s national dish is the party meal, centered on black beans and a number of pork products, called feijoada. Generally served at mid-day to mid-afternoon on a weekend or holiday, accompanied by lots of caipirinhas to drink, feijoada makes the party.

In a recent article in the food section of the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper, writer Dias Lopes makes a strong case for a dish from Rio de Janeiro called picadinho to be Brazil’s national-dish-runner-up. Picadinho is one of the few Brazilian dishes that are encountered everywhere in the country, as culinary and gastronomic traditions are strongly regional in this huge half-continent, and not many dishes cross regional boundaries. Even though it’s enjoyed throughout Brazil, picadinho still carries a strong association with Rio de Janeiro, for it was there at the end of the 19th Century, in the bohemian district of Lapa, that the various components of a plate of picadinho first came together and the dish was baptized “little chopped thing”, which is how the Portuguese name would be translated into English.

So what exactly is picadinho? Certainly, nothing very fancy. If one was to categorize it at all, it would have to go in the category of “blue-plate specials.” It’s not one food or dish; it’s a combination of foods ON a dish. Some of these foods are optional, but picadinho must have hand-chopped beef (not ground beef), seasoned and cooked in a brown sauce, rice, sautéed kale, boiled potatoes, and a poached or fried egg. Optionally, a fried banana or plantain and seasoned manioc flour can be added.

Just as feijoada is a dish for mid-day, picadinho is a dish to eat late at night – very late at night. In Rio’s heyday in the 30s and 40s, swank supper clubs, bars and late night restaurants served picadinho from midnight on. It’s a stick-in-your-ribs plate, and it serves the same excess-alcohol-sponging purpose as does a 3 a.m. breakfast in a truck stop, or enchiladas from a Mexican food-truck. Perhaps, just perhaps, that’s why the dish is so well loved in Brazil – it’s associated with good friends and good times. Party the night away in a club or bar, stop afterwards for a plate of picadinho then head home to sleep it all off, just as the tropical sun is coming up. That’s the whole picadinho experience, kit and caboodle, or as they say herein Brazil “É tudo mesmo!”

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Amazing. God bless him, now and always.

I compare +Lefebvre to Elias, and +Williamson to Eliseus.

For those not familiar with the story:


4 Kings chapter 2:
[6] And Elias said to him: Stay here, because the Lord hath sent me as far as the Jordan. And he said: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee; and they two went on together, [7] And fifty men of the sons of the prophets followed them, and stood in sight at a distance: but they two stood by the Jordan. [8] And Elias took his mantle and folded it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, and they both passed over on dry ground. [9] And when they were gone over, Elias said to Eliseus: Ask what thou wilt have me to do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Eliseus said: I beseech thee that in me may be thy double spirit. [10] And he answered: Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless if thou see me when I am taken from thee, thou shalt have what thou hast asked: but if thou see me not, thou shalt not have it.

[9] Double spirit: A double portion of thy spirit, as the eldest son and heir: or thy spirit which is double in comparison of that which God usually imparteth to his prophets.

[11] And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold a fiery chariot, and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven. [12] And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces. [13] And he took up the mantle of Elias, that fell from him: and going back, he stood upon the bank of the Jordan, [14] And he struck the waters with the mantle of Elias, that had fallen from him, and they were not divided. And he said: Where is now the God of Elias? And he struck the waters, and they were divided, hither and thither, and Eliseus passed over. [15] And the sons of the prophets at Jericho, who were over against him, seeing it said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground,

[15] They worshipped him: viz., with an inferior, yet religious veneration, not for any temporal, but spiritual excellency.

One by one, all the no-brainer, obvious, long-overdue candidates are being consecrated.

Eventually, younger men will have to be consecrated bishop. There are only so many faithful, Resistant priests. Will all the good resistant priests today be overlooked -- an entire generation skipped -- and the next bishop to be consecrated is currently studying in Bishop Faure's seminary? I doubt it.

Someone old enough (older than 40), yet not TOO old (70's) will have to be consecrated bishop, eventually.

And it's not just the age -- but ability. Who else out there can handle the job of bishop? Who is sufficiently advanced in the spiritual life, and can handle the task of administration?

I wonder who it will be?

May God send us more faithful bishops to continue the fight for Tradition!

O Lord, grant us bishops.
O Lord, grant us holy bishops.
O Lord, grant us many holy bishops.
O Lord, grant us many holy priests to follow and help them.

..... must have good experience of people and world and be clear thinker, someone with background in something like military or legal

The spiritual authors say that a priest should already be in the Illuminative way, and that a Bishop should be in the Unitive way.

(Many laymen are still in the Purgative way)

Talk about some high standards!

They still need a bishop for the United States and Mexico, Central and South America -- all the Spanish-speaking countries.

And what about Canada?