The Loulé Municipal Archive organized a Bibliographic Exhibition about Renato Costa, which aims to show three facets of the person being honored as a researcher: research in the area of traditional gastronomy, reflection on Pedagogy and Education, Regional and Local History.
The exhibition is organized as part of the donation of the documentary collection that led to Renato Costa's master's thesis, recently donated to Loulé City Council by his widow, Dina Adão.
The Bibliographic Exhibition opens on December 18, at 11:00 am, and can be visited until February 15, in the atrium of the Municipal Archive of Loulé. It consists of three main nuclei, precisely in order to reflect their main areas of training.
In this Bibliographic Exhibition, in addition to the titles published by Renato Costa, there are several photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, personal objects and even other books for which he collaborated with articles or prefaces.
Viewing documentaries completes this exhibition.
For more than 20 years, Renato Costa was the pedagogical director of the Colégio Internacional de Vilamoura, and since 1987 he has led a team of teachers dedicated to deepening a model of international education in Portugal.
He was general secretary of private and cooperative education between 1993 and 1995 and held various positions in private and cooperative education at national and international level.
He was also a member of the American Educational Research Association and participated in multiple international education missions in several countries around the world.
As a pedagogue, he has edited several books, the most recent being “An education for life – an international education project in the century. XXI”, which presented a synthesis of 10 years of educational practices, in a school that carried out a local and global project of international education.
Under his direction, the Colégio Internacional de Vilamoura reached the highest levels of excellence, reaching the top of the ranking of national schools.
But Renato Costa was also a gastronome and researcher, having approached the kitchen as a philosophy of life. Since 2005, he has been developing projects on the timeless cuisine of the Mediterranean. At the Loulé Municipal Market, he presented several live cooking sessions, with innovative creations, made using the local gastronomic heritage as the main source of inspiration.
Of the various guests invited by the gastronome in this initiative, the names of important chefs in international cuisine stand out, such as Siefried Danier-Heinenann (Austria, 1 Michelin star), Gonzalo Rey (Spain), Nuno Diniz (Portugal, York House chef), Jorge Breton (Spain, 1 Michelin star), Nuno Mendes (England), Jaime Pèrez, (Spain, former sub-chef in catering at El Bulli, by Ferran Adriá), Jonathan Pratt (Ireland, former chef of the Hilton kitchen in Vilamoura ), Chakall (Argentina, chef of the famous restaurant in Lisbon, Quinta dos Frades), Dominique Lienhard (France), Fernando Fonseca (Portugal), Filipe Lago (Spain), among others.
In the field of gastronomy, it launched the books “Em Lume Brando” (2006), a trip to the small world of the best traditional Algarve restaurants and their recipes, “Dito & Feito”, as well as “Boca a Boca” and “Tal e Qual ”, with Francisco Piedade.
In 2010, he edited “Sombras Reflectidas” and “Sabores Intemporais”, where he mixed traditional recipes, other author's, with short stories and stories about characters he met throughout his life.
Renato Costa passed away a year ago.
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