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- Title:
- Beef Burdens
- Description:
- When Filipinas was only 30 years old, the timeframe of the Antonio Morga food notes, the Spanish were trying to set up cattle ranches. Bovidae and the Spanish go as far back as 35,000 years if one remembers the bison paintings in the Altamira cave. Beef has been enjoyed as estofados and asados. The King underwrote expenses to introduce cows, also in the Bovidae family, into the Americas and Filipinas where they did not exist. Morga wrote there was “plenty [of beef] in many parts of the islands, considerable breeding stations and ranches where cattle are raised.” Chinese cows were being imported. They were “small and very prolific.” Philippine beef eating came with the Spanish colonials and ranching in the late 1500s.
- Subjects:
- Beef Cattle
- Exhibition:
- Antonio Morga 30
- Source:
- Image from wpclipart.com is listed as public domain. It illustrates an English nursery rhyme of the 16th century, the era of Magallanes, Pigafetta, Morga. “Hey diddle diddle. The cat played the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon.”
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Beef Burdens", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll069.html
Rights
- Rights:
- public domain