Comida e sociedade: a alimentação no oeste de Santa Catarina (1970-1990)

Abstract

We consider food culture as the aspect of a people, as it has repercussions on the occupation of spaces, power relations, politics and religion, interpersonal relationships and private life and social stratification.What you eat, who you eat with, how you eat are all part of a communication code without words and broad in meanings. The history of food and its importance in the western region of Santa Catarina, in the period from 1970 to 1990, when there was a profound change in eating habits and industrialization. However, this is not a piece that moves by itself; each movement reverberates in many other and diverse aspects such as nutritional, economic, geographic, social, psychological, among others. When developing the theme through regional academic production, looking for excerpts and fragments that testify regional eating habits, observing the routine actions of ordinary people inserted in the daily survival, the vast majority of techniques and ingredients were not worthy of register. They were carried through orality, practical and empirical knowledge; therefore without the só called scientific value. Recently, research and academic production have been focused on our reality. The study of regional academic publications, as well as periodicals and private writings, such as family recipe notebooks guide us in this search.