Cultura alimentar e quilombola: uma análise a partir da comunidade Riacho do Anselmo em São João do Piauí

Abstract

The research analyzed the current situation of the Anselmo Creek community that belongs to the Riacho dos Negros Territory in the municipality of São João do Piauí, its culture and its feeding practices. According to a historical account contained in the literature when Africans were brought from their paises of origin and when they arrived in Brazil had to adapt to a new life. They lived apart isolated having as support what nature gave them this was passed on to their children and this way they live today. More sociable since the drought forced many to use other means to survive more they still make use of agriculture to keep up both by own consumption and by selling surplus products. A rich culture that has passed from father to son a true inheritance of a people that developed means of survival amid the isolation. The research was carried out through a bibliographical survey of the history of the African Negro in Brazil and Piauí. Through oral interviews and analysis of ethnographic character in the field, analyzing their culture and the type of food they consume verifying the food heritage of their ancestors, in the community studied. It was analyzed that the community faces difficulties to maintain its culture even in the face of the difficulties they maintain and pass on to their descendants. Foods like corn, beans, buchada, mugunza, abobora, cook on the wood stove, features quilombola, gastronomic wealth that is preserved.