Produção Nacional
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
2023; Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco; Volume: 23; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/1806-9304202300000001
ISSN1806-9304
AutoresMalaquias Batista Filho, Maria de Fátima Costa Caminha, Déborah Lemos Freitas,
ResumoAgriculture, Food and NutritionTo what extent, or putting it in other terms, the curious plots of Brazil's history in the field of agriculture, food and nutrition justify the diversity of experiences, reports and, why not say, the varied and very rich contribution that characterizes the participation of our country from the beginning of the discovery to our current days in this trilogy relationships explained in the uniterms of the title?!The chronicle of the discovery of new lands since the pioneer and even somewhat adventurous fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral's squadron landed in Brazil, was, curiously, a summary of notes of facts that fit as the opening of new pages, or better yet, suggestive chapters of inaugurais books on food and nutritional issues in Portuguese-speaking Latin America.Thus, Pero Vaz de Caminha's writings could be considered a humanistic and discreet letter from behind the official scenes describing the ceremonial of the discovery through the mark of the Malta Cross as a symbol of a white European occupying the beach of Porto Seguro inlet.However, in his notes he described the colonizing expeditions to consolidate the possession of the new continental lands, up to the successive vacancies of larger and safer vessels.In fact, in this letter he was presenting the potential richness that permeated our future as a world food basket between the new and the old world, of the triangle Brazil, Europe, Asia, mixing colors, flavors of old and new continents, colonized by the boldness of generations, making and remaking customs, outcomes and, therefore, history.Caminha, more than a bureaucrat excited by the nakedness of the Indians, realized that the land here is "plaina, chã and mui formosa" (plain, flat and very beautiful) was, in fact, a privileged soil where, if planted, everything would prosper. 1 These prophetic perspectives of the European explores would soon stimulate the coming and going of peoples and cultures.These peoples came from Asia, from the Middle/East Europe (Spain, France), a bit of Slavic ethnicity, and many Africans, the latter were already pushed by the whip and the dungeon of slavery, stained with the slaves' blood and hunger with all its symptoms of,procession in which rickety rosaries were drawn on the costochondral joints like the beads of religious rosaries that exalted the
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