Revista Teias
Print version ISSN 1518-5370On-line version ISSN 1982-0305
Abstract
SILVA, Elza Fagundes da and VIEIRA, Alboni Marisa Dudeque Pianovski. THE HISTORY OF ESMERALDA AND ITS RECIPE NOTEBOOKS. Revista Teias [online]. 2020, vol.21, n.62, pp.455-468. Epub Feb 09, 2022. ISSN 1982-0305. https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.%y.45699.
The article, in the perspective of Cultural History, deals with the recipe books as documentary sources and as important pieces of the family and cultural heritage for its representativeness in memory and transmission of knowledge between generations. It deals with the life story of, N.L.M, the article the name Esmeralda, born and raised in the interior of Paraná, Brasil. It included bibliographical, field and documentary research. The recipe books are testimonies of a time, they deal with a way of life centered on family, in that it intends to systematize the food experience of this group. Her analysis reveals not only aspects related to the author's life as emotions, memories and family traditions, but also traces of what privileged the feminine education of the time.
Keywords : cultural history; life story; recipe notebook.