As experiências de mulheres para pensar caminhos de uma gastronomia de(s)colonial

Abstract

This study results in the search for to sight ways for a de(s)colonial gastronomy, through a participative ethnography with groups of women who organized themselves through cooking workshops inside de Casa de Referência Mulheres Mirabal, in Porto Alegre. The proposal is based on looking at the knowledge of the experience of women’s work and the issues ir raises to reflect the eurocentric and masculinized way in wich gastronomy has been systematized within teaching spaces. Thinking about the kitchen from a feminist perspective, raises sensitive discussions, both for the feminist struggle movements and for the History of Women, wich while carrying a history of conditioning the activity of cooking, were not included in this when it passed from the private space to the public space. Thus, in the understanding of what is meant by gastronomy, the knowledge of domestic and uppaid work is located in what is called “periphery of knowledge”. The investigation search to think of Popular Education as na alternative to move this knowledge between women and gastronomy, as well as questions of Solidarity Economy as a way of organizing the group for the sale of products that make. Therefore, investigating gastronomy in dialogue with the knowledge of women, proved to be a viable possibility of strengthening of the women and gastronomy in the South, to what it managed to think of ways for the emancipation of women through cooking and the decolonization of gastronomy through women.