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- Title:
- Cebu Cereals
- Description:
- Pigafetta’s word list is evidence that several cereals grew in the Cebu (ZEUBU) area. In addition to millet, already described in an earlier post, there was sorghum that natives called BATAT. Like Pigafetta’s entry HUMAS for millet, BATAT has vanished from usage. Sorghum is a grass grown for grain and fodder. Today it is the “propinquum” kind of sorghum that Southeast Asia and China cultivate. The third cereal thriving in 1521 was rice that the chronicler said was called BUGHAX BARAS. Perhaps the first word, pronounced “bughas” is today’s BUGAS. BARAS means shaft, as in a long and narrow handle. Could it refer to the shape of the long rice stalk or stem?
- Subjects:
- Cebu Zeubu Bughas
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Source:
- Image is a colored version of Pigafetta’s hand-drawn map. Shown in Vibal Foundation’s PHILIPPINE CARTOGRAPHY 1320-1899 by Carlos Quirino, edited by Carlos Madrid, with a foreword by Ambeth Ocampo and introduction by Thomas Suarez.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Cebu Cereals", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll022.html