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Abstract

The present study runs through a reality of clashes, for survival, resistance, as well as in the production of food. This reality is expressed in the municipality of Cáceres-MT, in places where silencing provides the survival of a lady who for more than 40 years, lives from the artisanal production of rice cake, typical of the region, which is presented to visitors as a gesture of welcome. This quitute, produced mostly with rice, cassava, sugar, fennel, grated coconut, butter and milk, is considered a cultural patrimony of the State. In the case cited, the cake is transported to the doorstep of Caceres society and local commerce, by the pedals and the croups of the sellers that move throughout the city on their self-characterized bicycles. In this context, the present study seeks to share the life history and daily life of a rice cake producer, who lives on the margins of formal market and discuss which mechanisms auxiliate her to build this space of resistance that faces rationalized market pressures. The empirical evidence was generated from interviews with the producer and its clients along 2016 and early 2017, as well as observation during the rice cake preparation and comercialization processes. The theoretical basis addresses the typical from Luís Câmara Cascudo (2011) and Massímo Montanari (2013), memory and silencing through Michael Pollak (1989); the perception of microresistences that move frontiers of domination are approached through Michel Certeau (2013), valuing also the common practices and the arts of making. In order to strengthen the relevance of ordinary practices, Michel Foucault's (2000) concept of biopower was used, postulating that food is not something abstract and disconnected from reality, since the food act is omni-