every day, they prepare cachupa, cabo verde's national dish.azil... yeah. ..banana, sweet potatoes from west africa... mm—hm. ..the meat came from the portuguese... yeah. ..and then the fusion. and now it's not from portugal, it's not from brazil, it's not from africa, it's for cape verde and the cape verdeans. yeah, yeah. to see all these nationalities that have shaped cabo verde come together in the national dish is a perfect metaphor for cabo verdean culture. but the question is, does it taste any good? thank you. 0brigada! this looks good! i've been waiting for this. i've spent a lot of time watching it be made. i need to try it now. i've waited long enough. you definitely will like it. all right! let's do it! mmm! you know, as i'm eating it, it's really reminding me ofjust a bean stew that my mum makes. and she still makes to this day, actually. yeah! it's kind of bringing me home a little bit. well, good. they laugh so, traditionally, who ate cachupa? when the portuguese was trading slaves to sell, they had to give them something, and the