Cocina Tradicional y Cocina Patrimonial cuencana sus recetas e ingredientes

Abstract

The traditional cuisine and heritage cooking of Cuenca, its recipes and ingredients will substantiate the cultural knowledge of the city from the gastronomic point of view and its social development. It is important to establish that the traditional cuisine is defined as the knowledge inheritance that are learned and transmitted through time and space. It changes in the transmission process, because having different experiences runtime generates a memory upgrade and changes in procedures, this facts is understood as the construction of the culture of a society, but not as cultural heritage. The heritage kitchen requires a contextualized history, that is to say, this can be legally recognized as such, in written documents or it can be learned as part of rituals that mark a greater importance and symbolic ethnic culture. However, neither the traditional nor the heritage stop being necessary to form, through cultural knowledge, social identity. The research aims to raise a database of recipes and ingredients used in traditional cooking and heritage kitchen of Cuenca city, through a collection of information on ancestral knowledge of cuencanos. The proposal also aims to assess the recipes and ingredients used in the cocina cuencana, to steer people about the inheritance of their future.