Registro de la cultura gastronómica del cantón Saquisilí provincia de Cotopaxi como patrimonio cultural inmaterial, 2016

Abstract

This research aims to: develop a record of the culinary traditions of the canton Saquisilí as the intangible cultural heritage; document the culinary traditions, and demonstrate the cultural diversity and customs existing in the canton, the festivals, typical tourist attractions and traditional cuisine as part of the cultural heritage. The applied methodology is based on acknowledged research techniques documented bibliography literature complemented by lifting testimonial material collected from collected from qualified in depth interviews where one could obtain information about typical plates, traditions, drinks, tourist sites, owners or agents of local informants most representative of typical meals, plazas, the elderly and street vendors who provided important information which from their years of experience know about the most representative dishes. Obtaining characteristic dishes like roasted cuy, potato tortillas with caucara, the chaguarmishqui, mishqui tripe with potatoes and baked pork with potato tortillas and corn tortillas with countless dishes that will be reflected in the research. The benefit that will result in this study is to keep traditions, customs and cultural events; translate them in a magazine so that this way the inhabitants are made aware of the importance that this has the identity that this represents in them.