Cooking is a cultural expression, a way of combining and transforming products that nature gives us.

When we say "culinary arts" we are saying that the food communicates, "talks", connects and possesses a sense beyond feeding, nursing, reproducing.

If we take a look in the past at colonial chronicle's and writings, we can see that mapuche women created a diet based on vegetables (fruits, cereals, herbs, etc.) and meats (domestic and wild animals), that they maintain . A lot of vegetables and animal species have disappeared, however the actual ways for preparing those meals have not significant changes.