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`writer, cultural icon, publisher (GCF

Books)
`Visual artist, fashion designer,
playwright, art curator, producer
`Received Carlos Palanca and Phil Press
Awards and Gawad CCP
`B.A. from St. Theresa¶s College-
Manila, and an M.A. from the Ateneo de
Manila University.
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` Pride of the priveleged
` Œmplied a surplus
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 ×
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`Batutay ± spicy jumbo sausages
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 kept in clay jars
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 ± nagaagaw na asim at tamis

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 ± lots of garlic and pepper
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`×

` imported codfish
`Most prestigous
preserved food
`Plentiful in Spain
`Cooked as ×
   

 on Good Friday

 

 

 
 `Visitors first visit:
1. Capitan del Barrio
2. Parish priest

` rivalry between the capitan¶s

and priest¶s cook

 

`ºvery Sunday, premier
families sent some of their
produce to church
`ºggs, chicken or
fruits
`Unspoken tithing

 

`|hen calling on the landlord:
`Dressed in their best
`Came in the back door
`Brought something special ± own produce: native eggs,
special bananas, d
chicken
`Passport to the house where they could lunch for free
before going to the gallera (cockpit)
`Tenants report to the big house on rotation

 

`Took at least 2 hours to
finish ± tenants eat first
`Talked endlessly until the
hour of merienda
`Œf there were visitors, they
would eat until before
dinnertime

 
 
`Peasants¶ fiesta fair = landlords¶ daily fare
`³do-do-do´ = menudo, asado, sarciado, embotido, etc.

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` 
`Stuffed with ground pork
and giblets, chorizo and
olives
`Fried in a large kawa in
the backyard
`Christmas, New year and
Town Fiesta

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`Did not require as much
expertise
`Prepared by the tireless  
`ºntrails and other parts made
into dinuguan
`Good cooks use blood from
inside, not those that flowed
out

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`Forms:
`Sitsaron kabibi
`Sitsaron bulaklak
`Crinkled like a woodrose
`Out of a small section of the
intestine
`Several pigs needed for a
party
`³Costs like rare orchids´

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`S
`Dipped in vinegar
`Not just m (from old nipa
flower)
`From sugarcane, chipped,
crushed and fermented in special
wooden
 (presser)
`Meant that one owned a rice line,
a sugarcane mill or
  

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`-eche flan from `-eche flan from coconut milk
carabao¶s milk `Torta from green onions and
leftover egg whites
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`Chicken breasts
`No coarse cuts, no
bulalo in soups





`Feet and head
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`Bite-sized puto
`ºaten like bread
`|hen tired of rice

 

`-arge puto with anise on top
`Size of a full bilao
 

`coarse, brown,
imperfectly milled rice

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`Binuhangin or Milagrosa
`Small-grained
`Polished to a dazzling whiteness
`a tenant is tasked to plant rice for the amo¶s personal use
`Paid double
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`Snow white sugar

 

`Muscovado / Taklob
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`Amo¶s fruits: `Tenants¶/ kasama¶s fruits:

(served peeled) `Tiesa
`Sweet senorita guavas `Anonas
`Santol `Sapote
`Fleshiest avocado `Manzanitas
`Pomelo

 
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`Amo¶s fruits: `Tenants¶/ kasama¶s fruits:

`Smoothest, creamiest `Balimbing
chico `Saba (except those used
`-akatan for putsero)
`Plumpest sweetest
mangoes

 
 `Senorita guavas eaten fresh from the tree, dipped in fish
paste (thick {
 or the ³tunay na patis´)
`-andlord¶s patis is especially ordered
`Thick, odorous, dark as soy sauce, vivid fish taste
`Took a week to boil and reduce

 
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`|hite fresh-milk pastillas

 

`Ubi jam during fiesta
`Fruits
`Suman
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`Delivered daily by tenant
`At room temperature for
drinking
`Heated over almost
cooked rice for pouring over
breakfast rice

 
`×  ± for washing clothes
and watering plants
`½ ± catches rain water; for
washing plates and cooking
`  water± for drinking;
harvested by a banca into jars


 
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`¦  grew strong and healthy

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suffer from overweight,
high blood pressure, diabetes, heart
complications, bursitis, gout
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³«people who have too much in life, and

dine too heartily and well.´