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significantly more). The classic dish is the ubiquitous
cachupa,
which consists of beans
and corn mixed with whatever scraps of fish or meat that might be around. For those with
a sweet tooth there are concoctions of
cóco
(coconut),
papaia
(papaya) and banana, as
well as flanlike
pudim
of either
leite
(milk) or
queijo
(soft goat cheese).
Thanks to the large number of Italian tourists and expats, some reasonable pizza and
pasta dishes are starting to appear on even the most out-of-the-way menus.
For drinks, there's
grogue,
the local sugar cane spirit;
ponch
(rum, lemonade and
honey); some reasonable wines from Fogo (the white and rosé are the best); Strela, a de-
cent bottled local beer; and, of course, Portuguese beers and wines. A decent caffeine fix
is available everywhere (coffee even grows on the slopes of Mt Fogo and on Santo
Antão), but tea is harder to find.
