SOCIAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURE REPRESENTATIONS OF CHICKEN SOUP: A STUDY ON HISTORICAL AND ORAL TESTIMONY SOURCES BY AN ELDERLY POPULATION
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2016.16717Keywords:
Chicken Soup. Culinary Heritage. Culinary History. Brazil, Portugal.Abstract
This study focuses social, historical, and cultural representations of chicken soup, with analyses based on parameters that examine written and oral sources, and the intersection between these. For oral sources, we have collected personal testimonies from an elderly population utilizing the focus group methodology. Regarding written sources, we have searched texts in two content areas: medicine and culinary. The focus group consisted of 11 elderly aged 69.09 years on average, who identified chicken, rice and potato as the main chicken soup ingredients. They also said that it was the convenient meal for convalescent phases, during the puerperium and in contexts of emotional sufferance. The written sources studied were mainly some Hippocratic treatises on dietetics (5th century BCE) and other Portuguese medical works published between the 16th and 19th centuries. The comparative analysis between the written and oral sources allowed us to focus our research on three subjects: 1) The recipe’s description and maintenance, since its historical appearance to nowadays, of main ingredients, although some “novelties” have occurred, imposed by cultural adaptation; 2) The acknowledgement of its therapeutic qualities; 3) Its socio-cultural relevance. We conclude that, although with slightly circumstantial adaptations, the chicken soup recipe represents to the eyes of the elderly group inquired a stimulus for the establishment of bonds inside a community and continues to be considered a therapeutic resource, like it was when it first appeared in the 16th century.
DOI: 10.12957/demetra.2016.16717
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