摘要:Beyond the palate, excessively felt also the preparation and consumption of
foods are set in motion in. The vision is basic in this process, assisting the palate in the
determination of that he is " appetizing". Thus, also we eat with the eyes, therefore beyond a
good taste the food also it needs to offer a pleasant appearance. It occurs that each culture
possesss specific tastes how much to the food. In the same way, each culture presents
singularity in the visual presentation of its plates. This aesthetic specific, related to other
instances of the thought, reflects the social and cosmological order of the group that puts it in
practical. Thus being, it is intended, through the ethnografic method, to more investigate the
appreciated forms of visual presentation of foods between the Mbyá-Guarani, present
aboriginal group in the south of Brazil, as well as the directions that this ethnic partiality
attributes to the aesthetic one of its foods.