Piracicaba, You Stole Our Hearts!

February 5, 2019
Today we had a free day to finish up our group projects and catch up on some much needed
sleep. Most of us slept in until 9 a.m. and went down for breakfast after. For myself, I got together with Phil to work on our group project at 10.
Our project is comparing food labeling between the United States and Brazil. It has been really interesting to see how the history and economy of both countries have contributed to their labeling. Overall, though, both countries are seeing much of the same problems between the two. Both need to give the consumers as much accurate information as possible. Along with that, consumers need to be educated on what these labels mean so that their decisions are made on accurate information. After working on the project, we grabbed a quick lunch at Subway, which is one restaurant that we know is very quick and easy. We then went to the grocery store to grab some supplies that we need for our presentation as well as food we would like to take home to our families. We spent the rest of the afternoon working on the project and creating our presentation.
Some of the other topic projects for our class include:
  • Agricultural Communication in Brazil
  • Comparing Soybean Production in the United States vs Brazil
  • Impacts of Farming on Flora and Fauna
  • The Impact of the Rural Sentiment on Brazilian Agriculture
In the evening we had the chance to go to Professor Shirota’s house for a barbecue! He has
been really generous to us all trip and we were all really appreciative of him for opening his
house up to us. His apartment was huge, especially for Brazil, and it overlooked the river and
the rest of the beautiful city. We cooked and ate downstairs at the patio and we had a great
time talking and eating delicious food. He made fried mozzarella and pineapple as an appetizer and went on to make sausage and beef for the entrée. For desert was something called “Romeo and Juliet” which was a cheese with guava. We also had doce de leite with the same cheese. After staying there for two hours we helped him cleaned up and headed back to the hotel for the night.

Piracicaba, you have a special place in our hearts now.

One last Brazilian BBQ before our journey home!

-Milan Pozderac

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