Ingredients for cornmeal flour cake (bolo de fubá) alongside a recipe and newspaper clippings that were censored during Brazil’s military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985, plus a current headline reporting the use of cake recipes in an art performance.
The author baking the traditional cornmeal cake.
A cornmeal flour cake in a restored cell of DEOPS at the Resistance Memorial in São Paulo. During the dictatorship, upwards of 40 male political prisoners were held here as they awaited torture.
Names of “the people’s heroes” are inscribed on the wall of the cell at the Resistance Memorial, one of the only sites of memory related to the military regime “Some people come here and deny that the dictatorship ever happened.” says Marília Bonas, co-ordinator of the memorial, speaking warily of a rising trend to try and erase the past.
Bolo de fubá, a cornmeal flour cake.
