This article analyses how, with the arrival of the Italian Immigrant in the interior of São Paulo State, by the time of the great immigration that took place from the mid 1880 decade on, it started an exchange of eating habits, of these immigrants as well as of the host society. Therefore, we limited our study within Jaú city, since this municipal district, at that time, had received a representative flow of Italian immigrants.
Alimentation; Italian immigrant; São Paulo countryside