Cooking is a cultural expression, a way
of combining and transforming products that nature gives us.
When we say "culinary arts" we
are saying that the food communicates, "talks", connects
and possesses a sense beyond feeding, nursing, reproducing.
If we take a look in the past at colonial chronicle's and writings,
we can see that mapuche women created a diet based on vegetables
(fruits, cereals, herbs, etc.) and meats (domestic and wild animals),
that they maintain . A lot of vegetables and animal species have
disappeared, however the actual ways for preparing those meals
have not significant changes.
