Feeding the CityOn the eastern coast of Brazil, facing westward across a wide magnificent bay, lies Salvador, a major city in the Americas at the end of the eighteenth century. Those who distributed and sold food, from the poorest street vendors to the most prosperous tradersblack and white, male and female, slave and free, Brazilian, Portuguese, and Africanwere connected in tangled ways to each other and to practically everyone else in the city, and are the subjects