SOUP, FAMILY AND WORK: PERCEPTIONS BETWEEN FORQUETA AND ITALY

This study approaches the perceptions of residents of Forqueta rural area, Caxias do Sul district, about food. The locality is inserted in the region historically known by the Italian immigration of century XIX and it integrates the itinerary that is in the tourist route of the mountainous region of Rio Grande do Sul. Based on the oral narrative, we sought to recall the subjects who experienced experiences related to the Italian gastronomy and that trigger, from their memories and recollections, cultural codes related to food. According to Alessandro Portelli (1996), it is possible to comprehend that the narratives show individual meanings related to each person experience and subjectivity. Therefore, it was used the oral history as this works methodology, that enables us to know and to register different sociocultural manifestations. Stands out the perceptions and memories of three Italian descendants who had traveled and visited their parent's country, Italy. The foods are understood as a cultural code that was made during a historical complexity and can be related to identity construction and self-representation.