O feijão-tropeiro em Minas Gerais: aspectos sócio-históricos

Abstract

Tropeiro beans are a typical Brazilian food, with great socio-historical links with the activity of transporting cattle and other goods in the interior of Brazil, known as tropeirismo. Therefore, with the food culture of their populations. In the state of Minas Gerais, where tropeirismo was a fundamental activity in the formation of roads, farms and urban centers, tropeirismo beans have acquired special importance since the colonial period to the present day. Its preparations consist of beans with corn or cassava flour, plus cracklings, boiled meat or roast pork and cabbage; or, beans with pork rinds and flour, accompanied by dried, salted, game or charque meats, with which paçocas and farofas were made. Such preparations were made at rest stops, when the beans were consumed almost without sauce, preventing them from spoiling easily, given the journeys of several days. For this, qualitative research methodology is used, with a preliminary bibliographic survey. The steps that were used in the research are: formulating the problem, preparing the provisional plan of the subject, identifying the sources, obtaining the material, reading the material, making cards, logical organization of the subject and writing the text. It is expected, therefore, to contribute to the deepening of studies on regional cuisine, especially Minas Gerais cuisine with an emphasis on tropeiro beans as a heritage, tradition and identity of the Minas Gerais people. The elements of the so-called Minas Gerais culture can be seen from a perspective that considers them monuments: the tropeiro, the Inconfidência Mineira movement and its characters, the mountain, mining and, why not, the kitchen. In this way, the analysis of information and data presented by the authors is considered consistent for the learning of the academic and scientific community.