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- Title:
- When the Holy Child Found its Cebu Home
- Description:
- On April 14, 1521 Magallanes gave Rajah Humabon’s primary consort, Hara Humamay (baptised Juana), a statue of the Holy Child Jesus made in the Flemish style. Pigafetta recorded that at the time there was not only roasting but, in earthenware pots, cooking. Perhaps the broths with fish or pork were made in them. But he also recorded cooking in bamboo tubes. Broths can be cooked in them as well in shells. Pigafetta preferred the rice cooked in bamboo to that cooked in a pot. He wrote that leaves were used as a pot liner when rice was cooked. In Cebu tagnáwan tree leaves were known in the 19th century to serve the purpose. One wonders if they may have been used because Pigafetta knew banana leaves but did not say they lined pots. In the Philippines the earliest earthenware so far found by the Philippine National Museum is 7,340 years old and from Tawi-Tawi. Pots allow new forms of cooking and give us soups, stews, porridges, and a host of other dishes. ctto If you want to see the Holy Child given in 1521 (shown in photo), it is lovingly conserved at its basilica in Cebu City.
- Subjects:
- Ferdinand Magallanes Rajah Humabon Hara Humamay earthenware
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/png
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "When the Holy Child Found its Cebu Home", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll027.html