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- Title:
- 50 Years of Feeding (Part E)
- Description:
- Some Spanish words were creeping into Tagalog, especially where there was sustained contact between Hispanics and Indios one would think. ASOKAL from azucar, sugarcane sugar. CALUBASA from calabaza, squash. LAOYA from la olla, a clay cooking pot that eventually became the name of a food cooked in the olla. COMPITES from confites, sweets. PANARA from empanada made of fish and other ingredients. SALARA from ensalada. Spanish used papaya to make a common local salad for themselves. Papaya was introduced during colonial times it having originated in Mexico or other parts of the New World. The entry is proof there was papaya in some parts of Tagalog areas in 1600. PRITOS from freyr (freir), to fry. HORNO from horno, the beehive shaped oven used for baking wheat bread. GUISADO from guisado (stew) but meaning to cook rice during the time of Medina. Pedro San Buenaventura, a Franciscan, wrote that because there were no stews in Tagalog cooking, there was no synonym for guisado as Spanish understood their word. LONGANISA for longaniza, a kind of long sausage usually of pork. MANTICA from manteca, pork lard. MASA from masa, dough whether of wheat or rice flour. SOPAS from sopa meaning “soup and bread.” Bread was used to sop up soup remaining in a bowl. Bread as a sopas comes from sopear, to sop up and not from “sopa,” the Spanish word for soup. BACA for vaca, meaning beef or cow. Earlier vignettes confirmed that beef had become a native food but not all the other entries. A century after Juan Medina’s residence in Filipinas, it seems that introduced papaya was as common as jackfruit. Filipinos selected not only what grew easily and consistently from among new food plants brought by Spanish (and Chinese), but what they liked to eat. Choice, preference, liking are considerations of inculturation. Not everything foreign is coerced into a lifestyle.
- Subjects:
- Papaya Cooking Language adaptation
- Exhibition:
- Juan Medina 50
- Source:
- Detail from the Philippine map of Murillo Velarde, 1734.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "50 Years of Feeding (Part E)", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll113.html