A alimentação nos navios mercantes dos "rios da borracha"

Abstract

The article discusses the food prepared on ships that operated on the so-called “rubber rivers” in the Amazon, in the first decades of the 20th century. We will see how meals on board appear in travel literature and in the Amazonian press, analyzing this in a daily life of many days. I will also discuss the problems arising from the poor distribution of rations by companies, the precarious working conditions in kitchens and dinning halls – effective triggers for riots and strikes. The central intention is to demonstrate that, more than transporting passengers and goods, the steamship was a vehicle for transmitting cultures and food values ​​that dialogued with indigenous and African knowledge, crucial to the Amazonian reality of the 20th century.