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- Title:
- Catholic Cuisine
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-30
- Description:
- Into the second century of Philippine colonisation missionaries were still trying to convert natives. Augustinians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits and Recollects were implementing a system that divided up the archipelago among them. No Spanish lay were allowed to live with natives yet. Spanish military were confined to forts. Only priests, and there was a shortage of them, interacted with natives. It was during church festivals that missionaries shared food with their flock. The practice was to have sweets and some wine, native and/or Spanish to make fiestas special. Precolonial festival foods and simple Spanish festival foods were both served: coloured rice dishes; pork. Into the start of the second colonial century, natives were exposed by priests to Spanish Christian cuisine and its customs. Natives learned to bless food, abstain, fast, and feast as Catholics. Secular Spanish culture was yet to spread beyond Manila. Such was the general setting into which our stories will open.
- Subjects:
- Spain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Religious life and customs Philippines -- Colonial Influence Fasts and feasts -- Catholic Church
- Exhibition:
- 100 Minus 8
- Source:
- Detail of Mindanao’s northeastern coastline with Fort Tandag. Siargao is top right. Recollects were assigned to the area. “Map of Fortifications on the Island of Mindanao.”Anonymous. June 10,1683. From ISLAS FILIPINAS: 1663-1888. Jose Maria Cariño and Sonia Pinto Ner (Ars Mundi Philippines, 2004)
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Catholic Cuisine", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll180.html