Tim Wätzold: Die Kochbücher des brasilianischen Kaiserreichs.

Quellen zur nationalen Identität, materiellen Kultur und der Proklamierung der brasilianischen Küche 1840–1889

19th-century Brazilian cookery books can be used as sources concerning the process of constituting national identity and material culture, as well as the fundamental basis for the proclamation of the Brazilian Cuisine. Therefore the article deals with the utilization of cookery books for the unique development of the Brazilian Cuisine during the Empire of Brazil, suggests the analytic parameters and methods, provides a brief overview about the related historic background and subsequently also presents the existing cookery books. These are the first Brazilian cookery book Cozinheiro Imperial, followed by Cozinheiro Nacional, and a compendium of four confectionery cookery books, Doceira Brasileira, Doceira Domestica, Doceiro Nacional and Diccionario do Doceiro Brasileiro. Those confectionery cookery books demonstrate the important role of sugar in Brazilian society and depict nutrition reality while the Cozinheiro Nacional and the development of the Cozinheiro Imperial offer insight on the national cuisine as a cultural construct, which has been utilized by the political and social elites as a part in the process of shaping the Brazil’s national identity.

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