01632nas a2200157   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100002300043700002200066700002200088245014000110300001200250490000600262520119200268022001401460                                       d1 aAlejandra Alvear M1 aPaula Hernandez H1 aSonia Montecino A00aInventory of Products and Patrimonial Preparations of the Region of Coquimbo. A Review of Research Tools for the Study of Food Heritage  a111-1220 v43 aThis article reviews the methodological proposal of the research "Inventory of products and patrimonial preparations of the region of Coquimbo". This exploratory and multidisciplinary research is part of a set of inventories promoted by the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA), which seeks to identify and register patrimonial foods and preparations throughout Chile. Its main objective is to have a culinary cadastre that will serve to know, value and set the memory of the communities regarding their food culture, as a foundation to strengthen gastronomic tourism and enable new entrepreneurship or to enhance existing ones related to the cycle of production, preparation and consumption of these products.The methodological review developed below seeks from a qualitative research approach, to highlight the role of people and their culture in the production of culinary heritage objects and knowledge. It focuses on the difficulties and tensions of this type of research in terms of operationalizing and putting into practice the rescue of what UNESCO has called "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity", through the combination of social sciences and the sciences of nature.  a0719-4994