La cocina en clave de traducción identitaria y cultural

Bárbara Cerrato-Rodríguez

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Title
Food as a means of translating identity and culture

Abstract
Food Studies have undergone significant development in recent years, and, in fact, they have served as a starting point for other disciplines to address issues such as migration or the diaspora. As with different languages, culinary customs reflect different cultural ways of understanding the world. However, despite the similarities between Food Studies and Translation Studies, the relationship between the two has been approached from a fundamentally interlinguistic perspective, that is, as a transfer between two languages. On the contrary, in the present work we start from the conception of food as a communication system analogous to language, insofar as it allows the members of a certain community to transmit connotations of a symbolic and identity nature, among others. Thus, we will analyse the relationship between both disciplines from an eminently cultural perspective. Finally, we will show how food reveals itself as a system of communication analogous to language which enables us to show, express and communicate our identity.

Keywords
translation, Food Studies, culinary habits, identity, culture

DOI 10.17462/para.2022.02.02