THE GASTRONOMY

The interaction with other social groups means that there are exchanges of experiences and knowledge, resulting in a transformation of the indigenous diet of each of the parties involved.

In Venezuela due to the development and proliferation of media, besides the elimination of barriers caused by the opening exchanges of the border, helped bring about the internalization with a large number of immigration issues by providing individuals who have contributed increased the gastronomic variety. It is possible estimate that between 1832 and 1900 entered the country about 67.000 foreigners, mostly from the Canary Islands, Mainland Spain, Italian, German and French were at that time, commercial exchange and Danish Caribbean island of Saint Thomas in northern Venezuela and Europe introduced a major culinary know, thanks immigration of women from the Caribbean island who served as cooks in the country of the foreign aristocracy and native Caracas and in the city of Maracaibo, whose oil boom radically changed its appearance achieving broader market for all kinds of products American manufacturing, newspapers in English, social clubs, sport and commissaries, who were provided with food stores domestic and imported by oil companies to sell at low prices to their workers in the oil fields. Products such as cereals (Corn Flakes), Toddy, the Ovomaltine, fruit juices from concentrates, pulp, oats "Quaker" in pancakes, different kinds of tea, some kinds of jam, some alcoholic beverages such as whisky, among others began be part of the Venezuelan diet, like the introduction of fast food chains, better known as "fast food and McDonald's" from industrialized countries, especially the United States.

Perhaps there are no recipes "Venezuelan pure", but the ingenuity in this country has the taste of the mixture of flavors and knowledge necessary to devise recipes or reinterpret dishes with ingredients from many different borders, then the feeding history of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela we can say that is characterized by the constant presence of transculturations ranging from its origins to modern times.