Politics Around the Dining Table: Brazil, 1881 to 1928

Group eating has long been associated with ritual ceremonies of the life cycle. ‘Food and Disruption: What shall we eat tomorrow?’ It is an interesting theme when we look back to forms of dining, specifically to the use of the dining table as a space and instrument for the construction of the idea of progress and national identity. Self-definition occurs in a specific space and time, in this case, Brazil between 1889 and 1930.