Influências da gastronomia no processo de evolução de Teresina

Abstract

Alimentation has always accompanied mankind in its evolution. Therefore it carries marks of the past, the people, and the region to which it belongs. As cultural aspects, eating habits may reveal identities and traditions present in daily of the society and they are demarcated in time and space. This work aims to approach the different relationships between Teresina’s residents and their eating habits throughout the development process of the city. It also searches realize the acquired habits, the influences of foreign gastronomy to Teresina’s cookery, and how these experiences are related to the changes that process of globalization has brought to contemporary society. This is a research of qualitative approach and exploratory nature and it is delineated through of bibliographical, document and field researches. Materialization of this work has happened through the reading of bibliographical material about historical and cultural context of Teresina. The methodological trajectory presents a thematic axis supported by experts, many of them accessed in the collection of the public file of Piauí. About data collection, activities were directed to the field research, using unstructured and open interviews, observations, oral history, as methods, techniques and tools. This collection was done in various places of gastronomic slant through of an observation direct and intensive. The result of this research is a reflection about the actual situation of Teresina’s gastronomy, in view of a process of homogenization of knowledge and tastes, and the possibilities of preservation of this cultural asset. We conclude that with the various influences on the cuisine of the city with cultural consumption patterns are generally established in the form of consummation, the Teresina still preserves habits acquired by past generations adopting both dishes such establishments as traditional references