As contribuições africanas na alimentação brasileira e sua presença no cotidiano social de Davinópolis (GO)

Abstract

Food, besides being a daily activity responsible for the maintenance of the biological cycle of the living beings that live in this world, connecting with the human species, becomes a cultural practice, where the organic matter transformed into food reveals meanings that differentiate our species from other animals by demonstrating values, techniques, and knowledge that refer to different times, spaces, and cultures. Thus, the present research is an invitation to an exciting gastronomical adventure of historical, geographic, and botanical nature by crossing with the cultural contributions of the African populations and their territory expressed in Brazilian food and in the social experiences that encompass the city of Davinópolis (GO). With these intentions, when embarking on this journey, will be presented to readers who persist to the end, some experiences, knowledge, botanical elements and foods that elaborated, adapted or created in Brazil since colonial times, were bequeathed from Africa and the various dynamics that the populations of the "Mother" continent imposed in this part of South America to ensure their survival in the germ of a system that while it lasted, distanced their bodies from freedom. Therefore, this study aims at the knowledge, appreciation, and understanding of the African interferences in the food of this country and in the territorial dimension that comprises the davinopolis municipality.