Panificación en Cuenca: nacimiento de la panadería, influencia colonial y evolución actual

Abstract

Abstract The first stone mills establishment dates from 1536. The following research tells the story of bakery in Cuenca prior to its foundation, data are also analyzed allowing us to verify a pre- Hispanic bakery, which, with the passage of time, together with the inheritance of knowledge brought with the colonizers, has evolved to what we know nowadays Around bakery they developed several aspects of the city, history shows how it was closely related to the development of the city and its exercise has gone improving according to the passage of time where professionals have perfected the techniques and knowledge, the same that have been mostly oral, of generation by generation. Professionals in the field such as historians and people involved first-hand with bakery were the ones who gave us their knowledge to be able to build what It would be the history of bakery in the city, each of its stages up to the present, in which reflects the heritage of that history. Finally, several questions could be answered regarding the birth of bakery, the social and cultural development that existed around it since its inception, about the information that exists about it, historical records and facts that were never recorded, the aspects that influenced this development of bakery before, during and after the Spanish colonization, in this way we can reconstruct historical memory and propose options that help to further promote strengthening of the gastronomic heritage represented by bakery in Cuenca. Keywords: History. Bakery. Oven. Mill. Pre-Hispanic. Colonization. Heritage.