Between scale and pinches: learning in gastronomy in experience with women

Abstract

Gastronomy courses in Brazil present a Eurocentric conception of culinary knowledge and practices, which becomes an obstacle in the learning of those who carry previous experiences in the kitchen. In the case of women, the kitchen becomes a space often ambiguous, because just as they were historically conditioned to it, in their professionalization there were other paths, of protagonism and symbolism. This work presents some results of a master's research with women, in which popular education proved to be an efficient means of dialogue between the experience of knowledge made by women and gastronomy. As well, it presented ways to think about a less dependent and more decolonized Brazilian gastronomy.