Fome e fartura em Rachel de Queiroz

Abstract

The present work has as a theme hunger and abundance in two books of the writer and journalist Rachel de Queiroz: O Quinze e O Não Me Deixes- suas histórias e sua cozinha. The main objective of this research is to analyse, in the mentioned books, traces of Ceará cuisine relating them to the geographical, economic, political, social and religious difficulties experienced by men in the countryside. The choice of the theme arose from the need to understand the process of constructing the dietary habits Ceará from the difficulties, overactions, beliefs and customs of a people while production of the cement. In this way, you understand up that the scarcity of food experienced by the field man in moments of drought, instigated him to seek alternative solutions of survival, building the food culture the collective. We consider as the focus of research: the conception of hunger and abundance in the books, cited above, presenting to the reader a cutout of the customs and eating habits of man in the Ceará of the Twentieth century.