Esqueceram-me as queijadas! Il valore delle tipicità culinarie portoghesi nell’opera di Eça de Queirós

Eça de Queirós’s work stands entirely as a polyptych of Portuguese nineteenth-century society. Inside, there is an element of all relevance: the culinary one. The present paper analyzes the Queirosian choice to mention in his novels the most characteristic dishes of the Lusitanian culinary, which responds to the need to crystallize certain scenes as typifying of Portugal of the nineteenth century: perverted in its urban elites, genuine in rural areas, unprepared for modernity overall.