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<\/p>\nA couple of days before flying to Salvador on a research trip, I received a call from my brother. He was in Almada, a city located in the southern margin of the river Tagus, near Lisbon. He had found a bahiana do acaraj\u00e9 named Carolina Brito selling in a park, and wanted to tell me about her – he knows I\u2019m researching discourses of authenticity around this street snack. He bought an acaraj\u00e9 and had a chat with her. Carolina told him she\u2019s from the Itapu\u00e3 neighborhood, near the airport in Salvador, Bahia. She\u00a0is going to participate in a TV programme (Portuguese TVI channel) to talk about acaraj\u00e9, the same day I\u2019m travelling to Salvador. My brother sent me this photo of her, which I\u2019m publishing here with her\u00a0permission.<\/p>\n
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This setting is actually a variation of what I\u2019m about to find in the more traditional bancas of Salvador. According to Gloria Lanci, a collaborator in our project, the bahiana makes the acaraj\u00e9 dough at home, but she does not actually serve the client in the street. She sits, fully dressed in her traditional, sparkling white clothes and headgear, mixing the dough, \u201cfazendo social.\u201d Her helpers are the ones engaging with the clients. Whilst the bahiana do acaraj\u00e9 has to be a well-dressed black matron \u2013 she is the food\u2019s main staple of authenticity \u2013 the helpers can be either women or men. So, while the bahiana mixes the dough, someone else fries it, another person takes care of the fillings, and another deals with the payment. Often, we find three or four people involved in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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