Food Heritage on Smuggling Routes

Abstract

In the present article, we discuss the problem of the Portuguese Luso contact since 1936, until data of integration of Portugal and Spain in the EU. Several memories are then called to preserve the food heritage routes. They stand out, particularly as smuggling memories, an illicit activity but a sole source of livelihood for those living in the forehead area, such as the municipality of Melgaço, a ruraltex, waves for agriculture. However, this was meager and insuficient to support families. In this sense, it has been proven to be more a way of life than just a simple fight of goods. For a better understanding of these contraction networks, we seek to define how routes will reach major cities, especially in the city of Porto. And, contrary to an underground economic activity, it is dificult to identify, as well as providing the sources of documents, the resource of oral sources represents today a methodology applied in the study of the history of the ray. See if you don't know how to counteract the various items that will survive the opportunities that are available up front, as well as seasons. In this context, this article focuses on the smuggling of food heritage, its routes and transfers, duly distributed at different times. As the methodology, it uses a literature review to frame this phenomenon and border territories, as well as to understand the identity of Raianos. As empirical support we analyze several interviews with smugglers who were involved in the traffic of food between the two Iberian countries. The aim of this research is to safeguard food heritage routes, which are fundamental to the people of the ray in striking times, but also essential to supply food shortages in difficult times in large cities, such as Porto.