Os Territórios das Cozinhas Regionais Brasileiras: O Turismo Gastronômico na Contemporaneidade a Partir do Exemplo da Associação de Restaurantes da Boa Lembrança.

Abstract

Based on the evidence that regional cuisine have material and symbolic territorialities and considering that gastronomic activities related to tourism have intensified in recent years, this thesis aims to analyze the phenomenon of gastronomic tourism in the light of Brazilian food, emphasizing the narratives who understand food as culture and identity. We examine the complexity of the tourism and gastronomy binomial, first, evidencing the changes in the territorial dynamics resulting from the technological development and the processes of consumption of space as a result of the expression of global markets. In the same way, we approach its symbolic dimension, having the national culinary elements and its intangible heritage as important references. Following these directions, we advance in analyzing the antecedents and the new paths of the Brazilian gastronomy. As a derivation of cultural tourism, and with a great expression in the urban centers, we seek to establish an understanding about the main narratives around the problematic of gastronomic tourism in the present time. We have seen that gastronomic tourism is consolidated when the habit of eating outside was definitively established in Brazilian food culture and that the tourist guides helped to disseminate the idea of trips in search of the regional flavors. In fact, we could have a more comprehensive view of the phenomenon, as well as we recognize initiatives that shows the experience is the main motivating element of a trip. At last, we used the Restaurants Association of good Remembrance to illustrate a possible example of food tourism in Brazil. We have chosen to illustrate this thesis, these restaurants because of the relations between this network, the gastronomic tourism and the experiences lived by consuming the meals of the Plate of Good Remembrance. In this sense, there was the identification and analysis of some initiatives that see experience as the main motivating element of a trip. Food trips are consolidated in those initiatives such as visits to local restaurants, gastronomy festivals or tours of the country's major markets, but above all, it is seen as a movement to enhance the manifestations of national cuisine, promoting an expansion of the understanding of Brazilians about food diversity in his own country, expanding his own identity references.