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- Title:
- Pinoy Food 1521
- Description:
- Pigafetta is responsible for the first written and published evidence of the Filipino diet. He recorded that the following were eaten in central Philippines: sugarcane, rice, honey, salt, hog, goat, chicken, LAGHAN kind of sea snails, millet, sorghum, ginger, garlic, orange and lemon (local types), egg (chicken, tabon and turtle), cocoanut, vinegar (of coconut), bat as large as an eagle, different kinds of fish, crab, “roots resembling turnip in taste,” nangka, gourds, bananas of different varieties, camote (written as BATATE in the Italian manuscript). One can imagine what dishes were made with them, although no names and recipes were given. He even offers the first description of how natives used coconut as food. Pigafetta provides a glimpse into Philippine cooking ingredients of 1521.
- Subjects:
- Filipino Diet
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Source:
- BAPTISM IN CEBU by Fernando Amorsolo, 1948. Collection: Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Pinoy Food 1521", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll024.html