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Gabriel and Aron have always loved
coauthored a food and restaurant blog
and as college students they worked with
the Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Emory (three
States) summer study abroad program to
write a guide for foreign students in São
Paulo. This initial foray into helping young
travelers engage with a new city led the
twins to receive funding from Brown
Piecing Together São Paulo: An insider’s guide to food and culture
in a bustling metropolis is geared towards young travelers visiting,
studying, or living in São Paulo. Twin authors Aron and Gabriel Lesser,
22 year-old Brazilian-Americans, believe that São Paulo has become an
exciting tourist hotspot, especially for those on a budget.
University to research and write Piecing
The guide is divided into three parts: food, walking tours, and nightlife.
Together São Paulo.
Section I is a mini-history lesson about the relationship between
food and identity in São Paulo, and provides great and inexpensive
food suggestions.
Section II re-imagines São Paulo’s downtown as ten walkable “pieces”
Walking Tour Guides edited by
boundaries. Unlike conventional walking tours, the “pieces” have no
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starting and ending points. Instead, the twins encourage travelers to
explore the city with a greater degree of independence.
English-language guides:
• São Paulo 10 Walking Tours
• Piecing Together São Paulo: An insider’s
guide to food and culture in a bustling
metropolis
Portuguese-language guides:
Section III focuses on São Paulo’s world-renowned nightlife, as the
authors give readers a cultural tour of the city’s bars, nightclubs, and
live music venues.
For Aron and Gabriel, “youth” is a mentality not an age. Their goal for
Piecing Together São Paulo is to transform how travelers approach
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based on cultural spaces rather than traditional neighborhood
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• Dez Roteiros a Pé com Crianças pela
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• Santos e Litoral: Dez Roteiros Históricos
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• Roteiros Históricos a Pé Próximos a
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• Roteiros a Pé com Crianças Próximos a
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Aron and Gabriel Lesser, both 22 years
old, study at Brown University in the
United States. Their mother is Brazilian
and their American father is a historian
of Brazil, so the twins spent much of
their childhood in a Portuguese-English
bilingual household in São Paulo.
Aron and Gabriel have both received a
number of grants from Brown University
to conduct research in Brazil. Aron studies
Urban Anthropology and focuses on the
formation of cultural spaces and identities
in Latin American and the United States.
urban tourism in cosmopolitan and globalized cities like São Paulo.
• Dez Roteiros Históricos a Pé em São Paulo
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He did research at São Paulo’s Museu do
Futebol (the National Soccer Museum)
and is now writing an honors thesis about
food and family structures in DominicanAmerican communities in Providence,
Rhode Island. Gabriel is a historical fiction
writer who studies Latin America and
Spanish immigrant literature. He received
support from Brown University to
conduct archival research at São Paulo’s
Museu Afro Brasil (Afro Brasil Museum)
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which became the base of his honors
thesis about language and identity in
multi-ethnic communities.
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