À mesa com Camilo Castelo Branco: a gastronomia como instrumento de identificação social em O santo da montanha

The present work aims to analyse the use of food and the main meals — lunches and dinners — in the historical novel O santo da montanha, published in 1866, by Camilo Castelo Branco, a prolific portuguese author belonging to the so-called second romantic generation, as a narrative tool to reveal the social paradigms of the old noble class of the 19th century, in phase of decay parallel to the ascendancy of the bourgeoisie.