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- Title:
- Goat Horns
- Description:
- Bobadilla noted that in common settings banana leaves on the ground [on the bamboo floor or over a mat, I suspect] marked where one should eat. Leaves were half a meter long and half that wide. Bananas recorded in the 1600s are saba, (healthy and good), bongolan (aromatic, green skinned), bangalan (aromatic, yellow, short), borohan (wild, lots of seeds, sweet), tanyanuang (very long) and sungay cambing (small, short, literally meaning horn of a goat). Some could be cooked in water. Banana originated in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific 5,000 to 8,000 years ago. Arabs brought it westward from India. Varieties from the Americas (originally from Africa) would be introduced to the Philippines. Banana is a precolonial feature of Philippine cuisine to honour.
- Subjects:
- Bananas
- Exhibition:
- Diego Bob 1616
- Source:
- Musa paradisiaca L. from plantgenera.org on pinterest.ph
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Goat Horns", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll092.html