Cannibalism has fascinated visitors to Brazil ever since Hans Staden, an explorer, escaped a Tupinamba stew pot in the 16th century.

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Minced reindeer, smoked reindeer heart, smoked reindeer tongue, barbecued reindeer steaks, cured reindeer leg, reindeer with pasta, reindeer stew scooped from a blackened pot.

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On the other hand, it is possible to exaggerate just how quickly the melting pot is cooking this stew.

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That would affront the French republican notion that a melting-pot should produce a single stew, as, by and large, did earlier waves of immigration in the past half-century from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Italy.

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