A gastronomia no âmbito local: evolução, desuso e tradição: a construção do patrimônio cultural imaterial

Abstract

Gastronomy as science and art, comprises technical knowledge: theories and practices in relation to food preparation and assessment thereof, that transcend the activities of cooking and to kill hunger, because it covers other aspects such as interpersonal relations from the food culture. In Brazil, it can be said that this is based on cultures: Indian, Portuguese and African, deriving the colonization process with its consequences, including the Northeast and Piaui land, with the cultivation of sugarcane and creating of coastal cattle to the interior, the use of devices and appliances, forms of conservation and preparations, reinventions of preparations and dishes that have suffered economic, technological, cultural and social influences, throughout its historic building, especially the from the evolutionary process of the twentieth century, industrialization scenario and socio-cultural changes that have changed the dynamics of the Brazilian family, therefore, habits, schedules and relationships that occur within the kitchen and dining table. In the micro-region of São Raimundo Nonato, State of Piaui, was no different, the construction of eating habits has suffered the influences already mentioned which have redirected the course of Gastronomy at the local level, while has caused the disuse and the gradual oblivion apparatuses and utensils, forms of conservation and preparations, including typical regional dishes, which represent part of the tradition, culture and type of sociability of a people, and part of its historical building. Therefore, it should be under the legal and normative aspect governed by the relevant institutions, recognition of the History of Gastronomy in the micro-region of São Raimundo Nonato, southeast Piaui, as Intangible Cultural Heritage, with the main order to prevent the disappearance of one aspect fundamental cultural education and identity of a people, the history of their food.