Cooker women in plural. Cooking within country spaces in the South of the Province of Santa Fe, first decades of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

The present paper derives from an exercise of major research about cooking, cooking women, recipes and argentine recipe books on the intersection between nineteenth and twentieth century. Such investigation has been looking for focus points until it became anchored on cooker women´s experience within country spaces in the South of the Province of Santa Fe during the first decades of the Twentieth Century. By using the words “South of the Province…”, we allude to a territoriality with permeable and mobile borders in permanent dialogue with higher realities. So, selected cooker women witnessed tastes and recipes which oscillated between the `micro´, outcome of the homeland and family-local memory; and the `macro´, characterized by manners, traditions and fashions practiced in national and international environments. The challenge consists in interpreting the texture of cooker women´s experiences, who, furthermore cooking for their own people, in many occasions did it for others as employees in household service.