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Two of Brazil’s great talents, award-winning chef Alex Atala and food photographer Sergio Coimbra, will launch a London art exhibition inspired by Atala’s newest book, D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients.
The book, published in October by Phaidon Press, highlights Alex’s journey throughout Brazil’s vast landscape and his research into it’s indigenous ingredients and the culinary knowledge accrued over centuries by its myriad of tribes and peoples. D.O.M. Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients took over five years to complete and showcases many Brazilian ingredients in 60 recipes, all perfectly captured through the lens of Sérgio Coimbra.
The exhibition will present 22 images of ingredients from Amazonian rainforest to the very south of Brazil, such as saúva ants and the Erva Mate, as well famous dishes