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Taynah Meira de Moraes

Taynah Meira de Moraes is a journalist and a scholarship holder of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), currently pursuing doctoral studies in Patrimónios Alimentares: Cultura e Identidade at the University of Coimbra. She holds a Master’s degree in Alimentação: Fontes, Cultura e Sociedade from the same institution. She is the author of the book Das Mesas aos Jornais: a identidade alimentar de Belém do Pará na mídia (Editora Appris, 2025). She is a member of ALERE – Grupo de Pesquisa em História do Abastecimento e Alimentação na Amazônia, affiliated with the CNPq and the Federal University of Pará. Her research is situated within the fields of food studies and communication, with a particular focus on the role of media and journalism in the heritagisation of regional cuisines, as well as on the use of journalistic and advertising sources in the study of the history of food.

Main interests and research topics: Food history, food heritage, communication and food, regional cuisines, food identities.

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//pt/651B-B051-F7EA

Repository: https://estudogeral.uc.pt/handle/10316/102639

Research field(s): Heritage, Cultures and Identities