Abstract

HERRERA CUENCA, Marianella. On eating's pleasure of the Venezuelan low income socioeconomic status. An Venez Nutr [online]. 2020, vol.33, n.2, pp.141-148.  Epub Oct 13, 2021. ISSN 0798-0752.

Feeding people from a comprehensive perspective is an interdisciplinary process that is not limited to meeting food and nutritional requirements to repair tissues and assist in vital functions for the body. It is a multidimensional process in which the biological, the ecological, the social and the cultural dimensions are intertwined, and has an important place in the lives of humans by evoking affective memories, giving as a result identification processes at individual, family, social and cultural levels. This study intents to explore the preferences and aspirations that arouse the desire to consume certain foods in the Venezuelan lower socioeconomic strata and to study some elements of the environment associated with them. This is a qualitative research conducted through interviews with cooks and mothers who go to assistance soup-kitchens in the current crisis that Venezuela is experiencing. The results lead to a discouraging scenario for the preservation of Venezuelan culinary traditions, because both the cooks and the mothers who attend the referred centers reported that their "dream" chosen preparations if money were not a problem, are pasta or rice with chicken or meat, showing an absence in the preferences of traditional Venezuelan dishes including desserts. It is concluded that the preferences of this group of women do not include traditional Venezuelan dishes and it is suggested that within the nutritional education to improve the variety and quality of the communities' diet, modules of gastronomy and preparation of recipes that can guide and rescue the taste for Venezuelan culinary traditions should be included.

Keywords : Eating's pleasure; Venezuelan traditional gastronomy; low socioeconomic strata; food; culture.

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