Fifteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

Over the years, human beings have discovered various ways and techniques for the preservation of their food in order to make use of it whenever there is a shortage of supplies. In Greece, there has been a tradition of food conservation dating back in time. How useful is this particular tradition related to the time of crisis? I grew up in an area called Foustani. It is a village in the prefecture of Pella in Northern Greece, where food processing and conservation methods constitute an integral part of the local people’s life. I was always fascinated by the fact that my grandmother, my mother, other women and even whole families have transformed and provided longevity to a fruit or a vegetable, a fish or a piece of meat. In this paper, I consider how useful food processing and conservation methods are in the current era of technological and industrial development of the twenty-first century and even in times of economic crisis, such as the one that Greece has been going through for the last ten years. And how useful is the transmission of these techniques from one generation to another in times of health crisis, like the one of Covid – 19, which has plagued the global community the current year?