Indian cuisine in introducing certain foods to this country. For instance, potato, a staple of the diet in some regions of India, was brought to India by the Portuguese, who also introduced chillies and breadfruit. Indian cuisine has shaped the history of international relations; the spice trade between India and Europe was the primary catalyst for Europe's Age of Discovery. Spices were bought from India and traded around Europe and Asia. Indian cuisine has influenced other cuisines across the world, especially those from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, the British Isles, Fiji, and the Caribbean. Indian cuisine
Cuisine of Pará Cuisine of Pará Pará Cuisine presents as its greatest influence the Indian culture and a bit of African and Portuguese cultures as well. The basic ingredients are from the exuberant nature of the Amazon, such as shrimp, crab, seafood, fish, poultry, bush meat, duck, all cooked with leaves (boiled leaves called maniva, chicory, coriander), peppers and herbs. They are all cooked in clay pots or barbecues in moquéns (wrapped in leaves and roasted) and soaked of tucupi. Served in bowls, in cocoons of banana leaves in containers of clay and even in urupemas (vegetable fiber sifter) which gives a pleasant