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- Title:
- Age of Discovery Cuisine
- Description:
- This concludes selections from the “Historia” penned by Juan Medina, OSA who lived in Filipinas during 1616, its 50th year as a part of the Spanish Empire. The five sets of history vignettes in my IG page so far track in as simple a manner as possible Philippine food from the time of Magellan, Legaspi, Dasmariñas, and early Manila galleons. It is Philippine food during the late Renaissance and Reformation, if one adheres to a “classical” timeline. Biographical, first-person stories help re-create the reality of a pioneering colony with insufficient colonisers, local uprisings, foreign attacks, a treasury often depleted, and fear of hunger. Philippine cuisine would claim its share of new global ingredients into the modern era. The next series brings us closer to the 100th year of feeding in Filipinas. Throughout centuries, the expanded narrative reveals that while “deliciosa” and “delicious” joined Filipino vocabularies MALINAMNAM, MANGYAMAN, LAMIAN, NAMITNAMIT and their kin sustain uncontested eminence. The Filipino call to table still remains, KÁIN NA. Let’s eat. Philippine cuisine is a story of freshness, preparations suiting the times they are made, ingredients as they embed themselves in the archipelago’s terroir, and loving comfort from a heritage that loves to feed as much as it loves to eat.
- Subjects:
- Juan de Medina Spanish empire Philippine cuisine
- Exhibition:
- Juan Medina 50
- Source:
- “Plate of Pork Belly with Bread and a Glass of Wine” by Madrid-resident painter Juan van der Hamen. (1596-1631). Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Collection.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Age of Discovery Cuisine", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll127.html