Prepare to meet a recipe book unlike any other you’ve ever read. I don’t mean to embark immediately on flights of hyperbole here in this preface to the alchemical stew that awaits, but in this case, I’m simply calling it like it is. Give it a chapter and tell me you’re not a convert. The Bigode restaurant flourished briefly on the Island of Itaparica off the coast of Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia between September 2004 and February 2005. As a real honest-to-God attempt at founding a restaurant in which spontaneity and improvisation ruled the day, the Bigode certainly veered between successful orbit and meteoric collision
