Chefs and their creations: culinary mobilities in the restaurantes of São Paulo

Author(s)

Mauricio Piatti Lages

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2023-07-28

Examining board members

Bianca Stella Pinheiro de Freire Medeiros; María Eloísa Martín; Michel Nicolau Netto; Maria Lucia Bueno Ramos

• Advisor: Bianca Stella Pinheiro de Freire Medeiros

Abstract

This dissertation explores the relationship between global gastronomic flows and restaurants in the city of São Paulo. The focus is placed on the creative work of chefs, regarding their insertion in the regime of cultural goods. Among the conditioning factors of their creative work, I considered the culinary mobilities, the new occupational features and the power relations typical of a city like São Paulo. Inspired by an ethnographic perspective, different methodological strategies were adopted, maintaining interviews with chefs, journalists and other professionals as the central axis. The objective was to understand the gastronomic scene in São Paulo at the beginning of the 21st century, the contrast of culinary postures adopted by the chefs and the ways in which this market is being structured. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/24696-2 - São Paulo, gastronomia capital: socio-ethnography of a global consumer circuit
• Grantee: Mauricio Piatti Lages
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate