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- Title:
- 50 Years of Feeding (Part K)
- Description:
- What was eating like in 1607? That is what these posts offer clues to. We are trying to shed how we eat in 2020 as we review 1607. Words then may have meant something different from today. Roots eaten include: BAGUNG, sweet BATANG, BÍGA with large leaves, sweet BOROT with thorns to protect it from pigs, BUHAYAN, COROT or CULAR, large and well known DAGMAY, GABI, sweet LUPISAN. TALACAN was to cook bananas. There were many varieties such as LISO with many seeds; well known SAB-A; small HALAG or HARAG bananas also called ETLOG SING BUAYA (Crocodiles Eggs). Roasting banana without their peel on was GANGGANG. BALATONG and LATOY beans, TALONG (eggplant), SAMBAGI and SAMBALAGI (tamarind), PAHO mango, HALITAN and BOBOR (two small cucumbers), wild DAMURLAO small melon, CANDOL cucumber, DUPANI fruit of camansi, and PILI were part of Panay’s cuisine. LASO meant garlic along the coast near Ogtong; but in most of Panay it referred to onion. Colonials in Panay used CAJOMANIS, also called TAYOMANIS (“coconut serving as a substitute for artichoke” referring to heart of palm); missionaries in Tagalog areas used it for salad. Cooking fish or meat with or without greens was NAGATOLA. TULAON was used if only greens were being cooked. TOLA is the root word; it also means the cooked preparation. How much of the roster remains not just active but competitively popular in Panay cuisine today? Some words, like tola and its conjugated tinola are used in provinces north and south of Panay. The world’s peoples share basic cooking processes. Roasting over fire and cooking in a receptacle like a pot are among them. Filipinos likewise have been using the same procedures all over the islands. But the food produced has a localised flavour. Seasons, soil, air, rain and river water combine to give ingredients local nuances of texture and taste.
- Subjects:
- Cooking Panay
- Exhibition:
- Juan Medina 50
- Source:
- Gabi (Taro) illustrated by Mariel Garcia Ylagan in KÁIN NA. Felice Prudente Sta. Maria and Bryan Koh (RPD Publications, 2019)
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "50 Years of Feeding (Part K)", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll120.html