A importância do milho na cultura alimentar brasileira

Abstract

Maize is a plant of the family Gramineae / Poaceae, originating in the southern area of Mexico, being ancestral direct from the gramineae teonsite, is part of the Brazilian cuisine, used in several dishes: as canjica, cakes, pamonha, pudins, angu, among others . The cereal was chosen to guide this research, because it is the object of studies by researchers and because it is present in the lives of many families, especially those in the rural zone, where subsistence agriculture predominates. Starting from a historical apparatus of its origin until its importance for consumption / production, and gastronomic application in dishes originating from the typical recipes left by the Portuguese, Indian and African peoples, where it is explained its increase as exporter of grains and the contribution of these peoples for our gastronomic cultural identity, these data were searched through pertinent bibliography; where the present work had the objective of analyzing the historical / cultural trajectory of maize in the scope of its productive aspect and consumption in Brazil, valuing its importance for the Brazilian gastronomic culture. Within the cultural, social and economic scope, this grass is a prominent role in several typical dishes, and has also gained space abroad, where the productive increase generates income for large industries, which profits from the demand of the urban population on the by-products derived from the industrialization of this cereal, even with predominance of small rural properties in Brazil, in which the subsistence factor is used as food source for families and animals