Gastronomia Filipina e gastronomia brasileira: ramificações paralelas

Abstract

During the so-called Great Navigations, Brazil and Philippines established economic and cultural exchanges.This article reflects on the relationship between the Filipino and Brazillians cuisines taking as main conductor the shared colonial experience from the iberian domination between the XVI and XVII centuries. The main objective of this research is verify parallels between the Filipino and Brazillian cuisines as a way to identify resemblance elements between them. For such recipe books and texts that discuss about the Filipino gastronomy were researched, the informations about the cultural foundation of this region: local ingredients, most consumed dishes and most utilized techniques. On the same note books and informations about brazillian gastronomy were also researched, on the search of of commonalities between the cuisines of thesetwo countries. The identified conclusion was gastronomy being a cultural practice shows the richness of these twocountries, manifesting their adaptation, incorporation of elements and invention capacity. Keywords:gastronomy;Brazil;Philippines;cultural exhanges.