“The historical-cultural imaginary of the insular world of the Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cape Verde archipelagos is sustained by ancestral practices based on the memories of their collective identity. The eating habits are one of the pillars of these reminiscences, allied, in many moments, to the subsistence practices and creativity of its populations, conditioned by the insularity and the roughness of the inhospitable territory.
Religiosity has become a unifying factor of socialization of the insular, creating a set of identity elements that go beyond the sacred and transcend the profane, based on food experiences framed in the various moments of the Christian calendar, giving rise to a gastronomy, rich in knowledge, flavors, and history.
The existence of a traditional insular cuisine in the Macaronesian islands is therefore subordinated to the identity issues in these archipelagos, through their historical ties, their biogeographic affinities and the very culture that unites these island regions, located in the North Atlantic, composed of a total of 28 inhabited islands, extending to the European and African continents.”
Last modified: 9 de February, 2022
