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The Culinary mine is a mixture of cultural heritage of various peoples who helped form the state. With the discovery of the riches of gold and diamonds in Minas, thousands of people from all over the country came in search of money. There was a lot of slaves used for labor, judges, military, civil servants, professionals, businessmen, artists and so on. who also came to Mines and formed the company.

Soon the areas of mining have become the most important economic center of the Kingdom Portuguese, so that the productive activities of other regions are involved.
Thus arose the first cities in the state, as Mariana, Ouro Preto, Diamantina, Sao Joao del Rei, Tiradentes and several others that have emerged in these places.

The Bandeirantes of São Paulo found wealth. In Rio de Janeiro was the nearest port to the output of gold and the entry of foreign goods and slaves coming from Africa. Farmers of the Northeast brought the cattle and agricultural products. From the north came after workers wealth. South of the country, the gauchos tropeiros supplied beef and mules for transportation. Without ignoring the influence of foreigners who were already in the country.

Revenues from various parts of Brazil suffered changes and adaptations. The mixture of ingredients or the replacement of each other were mounting and building the state's cuisine.

During navigations by the Portuguese took continents and bringing back all kinds of spices, foods and beverages. What came out is incorporated with the variety of foods that were used here. Tropical fruit such as guava, the jaboticaba and foods used in indigenous tribes such as cassava, maize, sweet potatoes and honey.

The miner is always ready to take a coffee, so according to the usual mining is necessary to make five meals a day. Breakfast, lunch, afternoon coffee, dinner and breakfast the night. The coffee black and enjoy yourself not he is accompanied by bread, broas, cakes, cookies, pastry and so on.

The coffee can also be assessed with a little milk, but the usual mining is baby him alone at any time of day.

The breakfast is simple: coffee, bread with butter, cornmeal or bread gem of the cheese. At a lunch rice with beans, meat, vegetables and greens. The dessert can not miss, sweet stewed, guava and cheese or sweet milk. Then comes the coffee in the afternoon, in fact it is similar to that of the morning, but it is reinforced with cake, thread, cookies and cheese fresh mines. Dinner usually repeats the lunch and to make digestion a good rum or a liqueur goes well. Before bed another sip of coffee and some grocery.