Pirates and the Food and Cultural Heritage of the American Pacific; [Los Piratas y el Patrimonio Alimentario y Cultural del Pacífico Americano]

The article examines the pirate chronicles written between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries from the perspective of the cultural and food heritage of the American Pacific. It is found that the pirates were particularly interested in identifying, registering, making visible and giving value to the regional food heritage, particularly essential foods such as wheat, flour and hydraulic mills; containers, such as pumpkins, botijas and piscos; products that would later be claimed as Denominations of Origin and Geographical Indications such as the Juan Fernandez lobster, the Juan Fernandez golden crab, the jipijapa hat; they also contributed to promote myths, legends and stories, such as the shipwrecks that inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe and the demonization of the figure of the pirate Sharp with the popular expression “ojo al Charque” (eye on the Charque). © 2024 Universidad de Tarapacá, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas.