Carolina Gheller Miguens
Carolina Gheller Miguens
Institutional affiliation: Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (Professor of Gastronomy)
Previous academic background: bachelor’s degree in Gastronomy (University of the Valley of Rio dos Sinos); master's degree in Food: Sources, Culture and Society (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra).
Areas of interest: valorization of gastronomic products; food heritage; eating habits and their changes; culinary nationalism; Portuguese cuisine; Portuguese restaurants abroad.
FCT PhD scholarship ‘What does Portugal tastes like? Portuguese Gastronomy around the world – Narratives and Culinary Nationalism’, Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra and Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, under the supervision Carmen Soares and José Manuel Sobral (SFRH/BD/06750/2020).
Selected Publications and Seminar presentations
“Valorização de produtos gastronômicos no Brasil e em Portugal a partir dos estudos de caso: Doces de Pelotas e Pastel de Tentúgal”, in Joaquim Pinheiro, Carmen Soares (eds.), Patrimónios Alimentares de Aquém e Além Mar. Coimbra e São Paulo, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra e Annablume, 2016, 117-142.
“Influência da ciência nutricional nas escolhas alimentares”, 4º Colóquio DIAITA Luso-brasileiro: da mesa dos sentidos aos sentidos da mesa, Universidade de Coimbra, 2017.
“Appreciation of gastronomic products in Brazil and Portugal, from the case studies : Doces de Pelotas and Pastel de Tentúgal”, First International Conference on Food History and Food Studies, IEHCA (Institut Européen d’Histoire et des Cultures de l’Alimentation), 2015