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A churrascaria (Portuguese: [ʃuʁɐskɐˈɾi.ɐ]) is a place where meat is cooked in churrasco style, which translates roughly from the Portuguese word for "barbecue". Churrascaria cuisine is typically (but not always) served rodízio style, where roving waiters serve the barbecued meats from large skewers directly onto the seated diners' plates.
The DeCavalcante crime family, also known as the North Jersey crime family or the North Jersey Mafia, is an Italian-American Mafia crime family that operates mainly in northern New Jersey, particularly in Elizabeth, [2] Newark, West New York [4] and the surrounding areas.
In 1995, there were 30,000 Luso-Americans living in Newark. [3]2022 ACS data showed that Essex county had 13,729 residents of Portuguese ancestry (1.62% of the population), while an additional 14,966 (1.76% of the total) were of Brazilian ancestry and 787 were of Cape Verdean descent.
Polish and Italian immigrants arrived in the latter half of the 19th century, followed by Portuguese and Spanish starting in the 1910s. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] By 1921 there was a large enough Portuguese population to found Sport Club Portuguese, [ 11 ] the first of over twenty Portuguese social clubs that would call the Ironbound home.
Kenilworth is a borough in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 8,427, [9] [10] an increase of 513 (+6.5%) from the 2010 census count of 7,914, [19] [20] which in turn reflected an increase of 239 (+3.1%) from the 7,675 counted in the 2000 census.
The Portugal Day Festival in Newark, New Jersey is a street festival celebrating the Portuguese people, language, and their culture.First organized in 1979 by the Bernardino Coutinho Foundation, since 2010 the Festival has been organized by the Union of Portuguese American Clubs of New Jersey (União de Clubes Luso-Americanos de New Jersey), or UCLANJ.
Churrasco (Portuguese: [ʃuˈʁasku], Spanish: [tʃuˈrasko]) is the Portuguese and Spanish name for grilled beef prominent in South American and Iberian cuisines, and in particular in Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. The term is also used in other Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries for a variety of different meat products.
Rodízio (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁoˈdʒiziu], lit. ' rotation ') is an all-you-can-eat style of restaurant service in Brazilian restaurants where waiters bring a variety of foods repeatedly throughout the meal, until the customer signals that they have had enough.