Moqueca Capixaba is the state dish of Espírito Santo, in Brazil. For other places that have this name, see Espírito Santo (disambiguation) Espírito Santo is one of the states of southeastern Brazil, often referred to by the abbreviation ES. With its capital at Vitória. ...

It is of Amerindian origin and consists basically of layers of fish steaks, tomatoes, fresh coriander leaves, onions and red pigment powder made from (orucum plant in Portuguese). Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... Binomial name Solanumlycopersicum Linnaeus ref. ... Binomial name Coriandrum sativum L. Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) is an annual herb commonly used in Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Indian, Latin American, Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisine. ...

The Moqueca pot is the typical black clay pots of the area, in which the Moqueca dish is prepared. Those pots are made with mud and mangrove tree sap, after shaped and baked on fire, there are a few applications of sap, which helps blacken the clay and make it water tight. Though one must mock-cook with oil a couple of times before proper use, to properly seal the pot, and make it ready for use. Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 μm (micrometres) in diameter. ... Above and below water view at the edge of the mangal Mangrove are woody trees or shrubs that grow in coastal habitats or mangal (Hogarth, 1999), for which the term mangrove swamp also would apply. ... The abbreviation, acronym, or initialism SAP has several different meanings: SAP Aktiengesellschaft, a software company, or its various products such as SAP R/3 or SAP BW second audio program (television) Session Announcement Protocol Soritong audio player Structural Adjustment Program Standard Accounting Program, a program on which some large businesses...

This typical dish, which supports the pot-making tradition is very important to Vitória's community in that it supports a number of poor families who live off the craft of preparing them. Their union is a prominent grass roots union-type organization, called "As Paneleiras" (in portuguese), meaning the pot making ladies, or something close to that. This organization, though not very powerful, none the less is an integral part of the city's life and individual culture.