From field do table: reflections on family farming and gastronomy

Abstract

Based on the assumption that there is an interaction between the rural environment and the gastronomic segment, what leads to the discussion of the territorial identity formation in which the relation between the field and the table goes beyond the simple act of planting, cultivating, reaping, trading and eating. It makes part of a set of strategies and politics able to assist the promotion of rural development and, consequently, the family-based agriculture maintenance in rural environment. The conception of rural environment is argued since the territorial perspective in which the familiar agriculture is understood as a way of life, related to the diversification of activities, among them the food production.