Brazil received more enslaved Africans than any other destination in the Americas — approximately 4.9 million people, compared to approximately 400,000 to North America. The duration of the trade (continuing until 1888, making Brazil the last country to abolish slavery) and its scale produced the most directly African-influenced cooking tradition in the Western Hemisphere. Bahian cooking (from the state of Bahia, the primary landing point of the Brazilian slave trade) is so close to its West African origins that West Africans visiting Bahia today report recognising the food.
The specific techniques that make Bahian cooking the most directly African culinary tradition in the Americas.
WEST AFRICAN CULINARY TRADITION — DEEP EXTRACTION