Stories of Paraná - Cascatinha

Stories of Paraná - Cascatinha

Cascatinha
Nilson Monteiro

The Italian soul spoke louder when brothers Peter and Ogênio Trevisan had to decide between buying a business
transport with six buses, or a sliver of land, with 48 thousand square meters, covered by bush, on the banks
Heartwood Road.
They had just returned, in 1946, World War II, whose challenges have lived in Italy for a year and a half,
as crusaders. The like to step on the floor, I felt it between his fingers, tearing it up with ease and tenderness, to plant,
as taught grandfather Felix, the Veneto, made them spend their 90 contos in buying a family site Manosso.
Moved there, the river Ivo, a vein of Barigüi that there had (has) a waterfall that drew so much attention
as the forest, small animals, the smell of the earth, the life of that piece of Italian world jammed bars of Curitiba.

The wooden house where they were living Ogênio and Alice, newly married, had a separate room to serve grocery.
Ali family selling corn meal made in water wheel in the back yard.
And Alice served as mistress dreams, pastries, pies and ice cream for those who come on Sundays, hes cascatinha.
The place became a meeting point.
In 1949, they opened the first restaurant in Santa Felicidade.
Farmers Peter and Ogênio felt the taste in the mouth of the trade. The small house served mainly
truckers coming from the north of the state, carrying coffee to the port of Paranaguá.
But with his "assortment" - radiche, risotto, polenta and fried chicken - also began to captivate carters, settlers
and employees of the numerous quarries surrounding neighborhood.
The Trevisan, however, continued planting. The wine was produced meals for his vineyard.
The vegetables harvested on their land.
The chickens and pigs raised on the site.
Peter and Ogênio, sons of Angelo, raised their eight children in the same yard while Santa Felicidade was transformed
the gastronomic capital of Paraná, with restaurants springing up here and there, the neighborhood changing his pose, without losing the Italian seasoning.
The wooden house had five thousand streamers hanging on the walls. The custom, have Peter and Ogênio was a show
the good will of customers, which gave them the streamers. The road turned avenue.
The wooden house, which has seven reforms until 1972, was replaced by a brick building in the 1400 meters square.
The children began to help Peter and Ogênio in your business, while Alice continued housewife stuck in the kitchen, doing what he knows.
Ogênio shows farmer's hand, although habits have changed;
public health does not allow to create pigs and chickens in the backyard, the meat comes from a slaughterhouse;
wine from other producers; 8000 the meals served in the restaurant each month are required to have to be produced in industrial rhythm.
And the mark of time, understand the brothers.
Altevir, sociologist, son of Ogênio, manages the restaurant Cascatinha.
And Renato, son of Peter, is responsible for the Castello Trevizo, new family restaurant, built on the same sliver of land and capacity to feed 1200 people at once.
Pioneers of wet eyes to relive his story, Peter and Ogênio can smell 40s bubbling in the same waters.
The cascatinha, longing net is the same. And the soul is the same, Italian.

Nilson Monteiro, journalist


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.