Transcendental Gastronomy (Philosophy of Taste) in Latin America: A Review

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers on studying the variable Philosophy of Taste at the Latin American level. The bibliometric analysis proposed in this paper was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during 2018-2022, identifying 14 publications. The information provided by the said platform was organized using graphs and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 7 publications, was the country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The Area of Knowledge that made the most significant contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the Philosophy of Taste was Art and Humanities, with 10 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period mentioned above was the Journal Article, representing 86% of the total scientific production.