Cheryl

Interesting to hear about Barbecue in Sudan. Funny, because, first we only add rock salt before barbecuing. Also, we don’t use sauces or marinate the meat. The only sauce that we generally have accompanying the meat is a type of vinaigrette (olive oil, salt, vinegar, diced onions, bell pepper, tomato, and oregano). I prefer without to keep the real taste of meat.

Susan, if you visit me in Brazil, I’ll ask my father-in-law to make his special barbecue for you so you can understand the tricks of barbecuing!

Elizabeth, you’re right! I’ll have to wait until I get back to Brazil to add some photos with the group of people that gather around a barbecue place! Oh, and sometimes we even have a group playing live music! My husband plays the guitar, so he gets the guitar and we eat and sing for hours!

Susan in Italy

Great to hear about your traditions in Slovenia. I’d love to try your barbecue, sit with you and just chat for hours in a row…Who knows some day? I have to mention that in Brazil we also grill fruits to go along with the barbecue. For example, we got a pineapple, take off its skin, stick it to the skewer and put it to grill. When, it’s golden, we cut it and serve it hot with sugar and cinnamon on top of it. As for the vegetables, I love the “Xixo”, as it is called in the South. It’s like a Kabob. You dice meat, bell peppers, onion, tomato and bacon. Put them in the skewer and let them grill. The bacon with the vegetables combination make the taste of the meat a special one!

Weren’t you supposed to have some time off???

Yes, I found you in Facebook! I also don’t use it much, but I’m always wandering in places to see the potential they hold for the classroom. In Brazil, a big social networking tool is Orkut. It was a fever two years ago. Now it has calmed down, but still people use it a lot.

I’d love to see what you can do for the tagging part, for it is something I’ve been really interested in, how we can really aggregate artifacts under certain categories. The point is that here the only option we have right now is the category system and I just played with David Warlick’s tag generator to make the one you see in this post. As you mentioned I have many categories because we need to consider what others might search for. Plus, there are some tags that are very specific, but I need to aggregate content from different places, for example, webcastacademy or webheadsinaction, ect…

I just took a look at my wordpress blog and they have also a category search within our system. So, if somebody has the same categories as you have, you can find them. Do we have that here?

Waiting for your brilliant solutions, Gary!

There are many Brazilians in Japan, right? Stick to them. They are fun to be around!

Beijos,
Carla

That food looks good. We have a very big Brazilian community here is Kanazawa, and their barbecues are legendary!

I’m wondering if you are using too many categories! I’ll have to add a Tag plugin. Categories tend to be better for larger concepts that don’t overlap too much: Brazil, EFL and so forth.

However, because Technorati automatically gets your categories as tags from Wordpress it is good to choose words that people would most likely search for. This is a key issue because words that are familiar to you may not be words that other people would consider searching for.

This issue is a bit complicated and I’ll have to research it myself I think.

I guess I’ll have to meet your son, then! Funny because in Brazil the most famous “churrasqueiros” are also from the South! My father-in-law, a gaucho, from the South of Brazil is a specialist! Every Sunday we go to his house to eat his barbecue. We gather around the barbecue place, made of brick, chat, drink beer or caipirinhas as my father-in-law starts the fire and begin to barbecue. My mother-in-law is in charge of the sidedishes. They vary, but there might be white rice, yuka, “farofa”, salad, potato salad, black beans. And, of course, crunchy French bread!