Ana Paula Oliveira is Brazil!

The soccer referee Ana Paula Oliveira, the muse that returns to the football in September, leads survey of Spanish site El Mundo Deportivo. It asks "which her favorite sportswoman is?".

Ana Paula has 42% of the votes, what corresponds to 21,5 thousand votes. The Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova comes in the sequence, with 39%, or 19,9 thousand. The Russian Yelena Isinbayeva, of the pole vault, has modest 10% (4,9 thousand), while the others, Natalie Gulbis, North American golfer, Amanda Beard, North American swimmer, and Laure Manaudou, French swimmer.

She is not the only that has pictures semi-nude or nude, in the case, removings of the Brazilian edition of Playboy. Swimmer Amanda Beard appears in two sensual pictures, one o f them hiding the breasts with the hands and other in a swimming pool with a transparent dress.

El Mundo Deportivo put the pictures of Sharapova in prominence, although the Brazilian is in advantage since Friday.

Ana Paula is Brazil! Go, Oliveira!

Cachaça makes samba

Cachaça dá Samba (that could be translated to "Cachaça makes samba")is a CD released by DeckDisc – a recorder company 100% independent, according to its own slogan – in June, at Rival Theatre, in Rio de Janeiro.

Alfredo Del-Penho and Pedro Paulo Malta intention was noble: compiling songs written during the 20th century that have the beverage as an inspiration. In other words, are songs that could be part of "Som na caixa, manguaça", a list of Brazilians songs published in our Portuguese edition.

The track list:

1 - Ai, Cachaça! / Bebida, Mulher e Orgia
2 - Quem Não Sabe Beber
3 - A Verdade é Pura
4 - O Pingo e a Pinga
5 - Malvada Pinga (moda da Pinga)
6 - Delírio Alcoólico
7 - Por Esta Vez Passa
8 - Maria Fumaça
9 - Prá Esquecer
10 - É Bom Parar / Quem Mandou Você Beber/ Não Deixarei de Beber
11 - Moenda Velha
12 - Baranga Das Dez, Broto Das Duas
13 - O Que me Dão Pra Beber / Beberrão
14 - Deixa-me Beber / Cachaça

They have recorded in Biscoito Fino the CD Dois bicudos, in 2004, well seen by critics, although I did not listen. The new Cachaça dá samba are sold by 21,90 reais (US$ 7), at DeckDisc's website. Single tracks are also available at Imusica (only tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 e 9).

Deckdisc

Learning about cachaça

For non-Brazilian readers, we have prepared a list of how to learn about this amazing beverage developped in the country in the 17th century.

The Museum of Cachaça of Pernambuco State swear to have 7,8 thousand bottles. The curator José Moisés de Moura says he took 20 years to put them together. Some of the our drank authors calculates it would be necessary to take 20 days to finish it all.
For the last six years, he keeps a website for the museum, opened since 1998, in Lagoa do Carro (tha car lake), a town 60 km far way from Recife. For the ones who got there, you have to pay 1 real (33 cents) for the ticket. A huge part of the visitors say it is not easy to leave, deppending on how much ou have drunk at the Bar do Papudinho (untranslatable). For children, no charges.

"Cachaça is also culture" is the slogan of Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Cachaça, the "Muca". Created in 1991, they have the "chambirra" in all its forms. The most impressive, although, are the books – to show the catchphrase is true. Notice that it is impressive because reading after drinking is not easy.


Minas Gerais, the state of cachaça, also have its museum, in Caeté. the 6 thousand bottles, showed near a restaurant, were jointed by a doctor who can not hide his drunk roots. He started the collection inside a bar. One day, he got into one, and saw a whole wall covered by bottles of all collors, shapes and labels. He decided to buy it all. Someone might think that the collection idea was a way to explain to his wife and the neighbourhood that buch of cachaças. Honestly, I don't know.

Virtual "Mé" – to the headached readers who have no strentgh to leave the computer, you may take a look at Cachaça na Net (CnN), that have many labels of cachaças. The most incredible is that the "office" is located in Netherlands. After scaning, the original labels are kept in safe place. The Cultura e conhecimento: cachaça (Culture and knowledge: cachaça) do not explains very clearly what they are. They have label pictures, sambas' lyrics about the "caxaramba" and other stuf.

The Cachaça fair and Cachaça.com.br are virtual stores of cachaça. It is not the most cheap prices, but ok. Cachacas.com intents to be a true website about the "chambirra", with news and so on, while Cachaçaria Virtual lists news.

The original post is in portuguese.