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| MVTimes Online - The Martha's Vineyard Times: Island News Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Brazil, officially the Federal Republic of Brasil, is the fifth largest nation in the world, physically nearly as large as the United States, although with a sixth of the population. |
 | | The yuca or mandioca, a type of cassava root, grows in these tropical climes and is used in a variety of ways both in its tuber form and in a flour, or meal, derived from it. |
 | | Commonly served comestibles are pasties, a small empanada-type pastry filled with meat and cheese, risoles, similar pastries coated with cassava meal and deep-fried, and fried slices of yuca and plantain. |
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