Crispy Acarajé in Salvador Brazil

Salvador’s steep, sun-baked streets are lined with glorious Baroque churches and brightly painted 18th-century mansions. Music bursts from every other doorway, and in the coconut-palm-shaded squares, African Brazilians spin and swirl to the beats and claps of capoeira, a musical form of martial art. At street stands, women dressed in flowing white cook acarajé, a piquant patty.