Recently several researchers on consumer behavior have had interest on postmodern marketing and its challenges to modern and traditional theories on marketing. In postmodern approach, consumers behavior are no more based on demographic, psychographic or other kind of segmented aspects, but on lifestyles and dynamic values, apparently in contradiction. This present work studies individuals behavior while members of a group, the so-called tribes or modern communities. Such communities have symbols and consume products and services related to the linking values they offer, that is, products and services that allow or support interaction among their members (Cova, 1995, apud Cova, 1997; Cova, 2001). The main goal of this work is to identify in a postmodern tribe the elements responsible for its definition as so, and to identify the existence of linking values in its consumption habits. The group selected for this exploratory research was the gourmets – connoisseurs of fine food and drink - that usually cook. The choice of this group aimed to contribute to the discipline of marketing from mercadological point of view, due to the growing gastronomy market in Brazil, as well as from the academic point of view, due to the scarce research on this consumer in the food related studies on marketing. Results suggest that gourmets that cook constitute a postmodern tribe, and that the act of cooking for friends has several symbolic significances.