No. 5 (2020): História, Literatura e Cozinha

The fifth issue of e-Letras com Vida brings the thematic dossier on «History, Literature and Cuisine» coordinated by Isabel Drumond Braga. Readers will virtually sit at the table with Portuguese and Brazilian authors in order to take a journey through history and stories. The dining-readers will be able to taste — i.e. to read — the cuisine that was the theme of socialization in the 16th century in the play script by António Ribeiro Chiado (Auto das regateiras) and in the text by the humanist André de Resende (De Antiquitatibus Lusitaniae), which will be « served» by Guida Cândido and Inês de Ornellas e Castro, respectively. In the hands of Isabel Drumond Braga, maître of this dossier, they will travel to the 19th century table of Portuguese and Brazilian cod and sardine lovers, accompanied by Camilo Castelo Branco (O santo da montanha) fixed by Maria Antonietta Rossi. With no ceremony, they will sit at the table of Gervásio Lobato (Lisboa em camisa) at the invitation of Paulo Drumond Braga. In the 20th century, they will be able to participate in the modernist O banquete by Mário de Andrade, offered by Claude Papavero, and, for dessert, there will be fruit from the poetic orchard by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, picked by Maria Serena Felici.