Identidad y gastronomía manabita como predictores de empoderamiento: caso cantón Chone.

Abstract

This research project is focused on the Chone canton exposing the elements that are characteristic of the town and that are presented through the conceptual framework describing everything that is related to the identity of the canton, as cultural manifestations, events, festivals and other Production activities such as livestock and agriculture. Topics about traditional gastronomy are addressed highlighting its gastronomic offer, native products, utensils, techniques and other ancestral culinary knowledge of the town and the link that the inhabitants of the canton have towards them with the aim of determining whether identity and traditional gastronomy of the canton act as main sources generating empowerment towards the inhabitants of the community. The research field is directed in the urban area of the canton using methods such as qualitative, inductive, analytical, proposing interview techniques and surveys aimed at the determined area to obtain truthful and updated information. The results of the research techniques showed the level of knowledge that the population has for which it was proposed Locality food and drinks. The practical workshops are inclined towards the traditional cuisine of the canton, this is due to contain only issues that are managed more practically than theoretical helps to obtain better results in the improvement of knowledge of the population, these activities They are directed towards the inhabitants of the established community with the objective of encouraging them to value, recognize and thereby get them to empower all their senses of belonging to the Chone canton and in turn allowing to respond to the objectives set.