• moving to paris and managing to bring vitor to paris
• paris life: restaurants, bars, cafés and amazing french produce
• tasting new things: pêche blanche, mirabelles, differrent plums, the best strawberries, amazing oysters, seasonal pastries, german sausages, stollen
• understading what good wine is
• moving out of paris
• meeting deniz, lyz, mohamed, bojana and luci
• baking bread at circus
• i made it.

• susucaru
• taittinger
• bugey cerdon sec (pet)
• roumègne, la ferme du cade
• fermentations, la roche buissière

• japan (15 days)
• morocco (5 days)
• iceland (10 days - car needed)
• big european cities before children - cultural stuff

• sharing socks
• sharing same toiletries (shampoo, deodorant)
• we evolved into dressing the same, unconsciously, same taste (denin jackets, caramel pants, nike snickers, abolishing jeans pants)
• same taste for food
• guessing each other choices before ordering on a restaurant

• imposto de renda

• tearing gluten
• finding hair outside your head
• over proofing
• lazy leaven
• rats, cockroaches, coronavirus
• melting ice cream when you have to plate up some quenelles
• undercooked

• ✔ work with bread again
• figure out if we are staying in france or going somewhere else
• ✔ fully recover from covid
• save more money (20%)
• ✔ eat better at home
• bake at home
• resume therapy
• travel
• ✔ see my family
• go to brazil
• spend less time on the phone
• understand my anxiety

• farm
• a wood fire and a deck oven and a rotational oven
• some fresh milling
• some lamination, a lot of brioche (panettone included) and a lot of bread
• pizza at night
• locally sourced flour
• mainly selling at marchés or BtoB
• international team
• women led
• diving arm mixer
• lower tables
• roulettes - and everything to make the weight lifiting easier
• fair amount of gilacs and chariots and accessible shelfs - and everything to optimize the space
• big windows with natural light
• automatic washing machine
• decent wooden tables with tiroirs

• intense sunlight in cold days
• when the sun is not at 90° at midday
• coldness
• snow, ice
• heater
• hot tap water
• deciduous trees and autumnal tones
• smell of freshly ground cardamom, in baking goods
• smell of freshly ground coffee, at the streets
• seasonal veggies
• earl grey
• clementines
• berries
• Christmas as a season
• fireplace
• tasteless mangoes

• writing
• learning languages
• studying
• visiting cities, discovering their best features/particularities and actually enjoying them
• making city guides / personalized suggestions
• bread baking
• pâtisserie and desserts baking
• navigating through a new country
• arriving at time
• planning things ahead
• sharing my life with vítor / our marriage
• photographing

• hot dog façon iraci
• baba au rum
• yakissoba façon anhembi
• cake au citron
• arroz
• gohan

describing my flavor profile preference for food and beverages in a complex way

• red wine

low tannins, fruity, fresh, juteau, gourmand, clair, naturel, léger, berries and stone fruit compote (dislike: excessive wood, pneumatic)

• white wine

mineral, tropical fruit, good acidity, golden colors, honey, jam (dislike: excessive floral or sweetness)

• cheese

• giving up a promising job position in a great place, with a great team of women, to build a new professional career as a baker abroad, leaving behind all the comforts of my home country (family support, friends and social life, professional network). i never considered myself brave before that.
• moving to paris alone during pandemic and navigating its overwhelming bureaucratic shit without giving up on the many occasions i have had (still have). pursuing a dream can give you unimaginable strength.
• doing things for the first time, that i never saw myself doing, here in paris: working at night, cycling, saving money, working in a team with only men, communicating in french on a daily basis.
• building a stable, self-sufficient and professionally enriching life in paris in l...

• major dantas, são paulo/zn
• belenzinho, são paulo/zl
• casa azul, campinas/barão geraldo
• central park, são paulo/zl
• ménilmontant, paris/20ème
• maisons alfort, île de france/créteil
• rep lunáticas, campinas/barão geraldo
• boston colledge, boston/linconshire
• general calado, tatuapé/zl
• jerônimo frança, butantã/zo
• rue saint-denis, paris/2ème
• sceaux, île de france

• use butter indiscriminately
• always have double cream, meat, berries, vanilla and quality chocolate
• have nordic ware cake molds as decor
• nice kitchen equipment
• not using a calculator at the supermarket every single time (and not remove stuff from your cart when you see the amount adding up on the screen at the check out)
• collecting wine for aging
• have enough money to worry about decorating your home and not just for buying/fixing essentials
• being able to develop film rolls whenever
• save money