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- Title:
- Wine Security
- Description:
- During the time of Morga, wine was food. Spanish wines arrived from the galleon coming from Mexico every year. But grape wine was not being made in Filipinas. One guarded the wine supply. Morga wrote that Filipinos made a local wine. “They drink that which drips out of the tender flowers of coconut trees and of nipa palms which are abundant and raised like vineyard-grapes although with less care and difficulty.” The juice was then distilled until fermented strong or light in intensity. He classified tuba as a clear fluid like water but strong and dry. It is interesting that he noted: “When used moderately, it is medicinal for the stomach and good for phlegms and other kinds of rhems. When mixed with Spanish wine, it becomes a pleasant liquor which is tasteful and wholesome.” Perhaps today’s competitive bar masters can develop a tuba and wine cocktail celebrating culinary mixing?
- Subjects:
- Wine Tuba
- Exhibition:
- Antonio Morga 30
- Source:
- A Young Man Drinking (in the style of Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, 1617-1682) National Gallery, UK
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Wine Security", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll063.html