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- Title:
- Coconut Came First
- Description:
- The Philippine vinegar first documented in a publication was the kind made of coconut. Pigafetta described it in March 1521. He explained how coconut water is naturally fermented, then placed in the sun till it becomes vinegar that to him resembled white wine. He also documented that Filipinos made wine (tuba) from both coconut and nipa palms. Vinegar is wine turned sour, so maybe there was also nipa vinegar but he did NOT write about it. So coconut vinegar is the earliest Philippine vinegar according to historical evidence. The image is the cover of a cookbook published in 1914 by the USA company, Franklin Baker Coconut Company, that in the 1920s would start the desiccated coconut export business of the Philippines, still worth millions.
- Subjects:
- Coconut Coconut water
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Coconut Came First", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll038.html