Letter from the Editors

Abstract

Since mid-2017, we have been working on the production of this publication, which we are proud to launch now in March 2019. Ingesta arrives on the academic scene with the goal of catalyzing researches related to the history of food and drugs and contributing to expand and consolidate this branch of interdisciplinary studies in the field of the humanities. This debut issue, however, evades what will be the routine of the publication. Under the coordination of historian Henrique Soares Carneiro and a guest editor, sociologist Carlos Alberto Dória, we planned the first edition in the form of a compendium of articles and essays signed by researchers and teachers with vast academic production on drugs and food - some of them even integrate the journal's scientific committee. Linked to institutions from various Brazilian regions, the authors were invited to write their texts especially for this first edition. Exceptionally, therefore, only this time the published articles have not been evaluated by members of the scientific committee, as should occur in the following editions. It was a great pleasure for us to receive each of the articles and to be able to compile them in this edition of presentation, which represents in itself one of the primary proposals of the publication: to unify the areas of food and drug studies, usually dealt apart.