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- Title:
- Concluding Reports
- Date Created:
- 2021-06-08
- Description:
- Unhusked rice was classified as either LAYA, the thicker and more substantial variety “more suited to the working indio” or MACAN, the “better” type that had fragrant SINAPAGA rice and the scarce, rosemary-smelling RINOMERO among its kinds. Fr. San Antonio said indios had a strong preference for fish or meat that was “somewhat smelly, which to [us] is a strange taste”. Iguana made a tasty dish. Frogs were “in demand by the Indian as food”. Laguna de Bai had plenty of swordfish. Large whales were found in seas of Jolo and Mindanao Island. Butuanons of northern Mindanao were “worthy of eternal memories and gratitude having been the first who gave shelter to the Catholic men-at-arms ... the first land where the celebrated Magellan planted the domain of Jesus Christ and that of our Catholic King.” San Antonio wrote: “The island of Zebu or Sogbu (which is its proper name) was the first one favored by God with the first planting of the Holy Tree of the Cross and the establishment of Christianity”. Mactan island was “where Magellan was unfortunately killed”. Other sites visited by the first circumnavigation armada were not identified by him. In the 171st year of the colony, the total indio Christian population had reached around 837,182; the number of churches totalled 700. There were no figures for the “fluid” Spanish population he said. Indios were acquiring Hispanic influences even if Spanish lay were not yet allowed to live amongst them. One may presume they were due to the priests who had become well entrenched. That civil officials knelt to kiss the hand of a priest seemed a sign that religion was more powerful than the state according to other authors.
- Subjects:
- Rice Cooking, Philippine Marine resources -- Philippines Cebu (Philippines) Spain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Social life and customs Spain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Religious life and customs
- Exhibition:
- J San Antonio
- Source:
- The food entries are in the first of three volumes of San Antonio’s “Cronicas de la Provincia de San Gregorio Magno” published at Sampaloc, Manila in 1738, 1641, and 1744 respectively.
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- Image;Still Image
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Concluding Reports", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll229.html