Felice Prudente Sta. Maria,Guillermo Ramos
This book gathers interesting and little-known stories from historical sources about the Philippinesâ€™ culinary culture from 1521 to 1935. This book contains the circumnavigatorsâ€™ first picnic in the Philippines, efforts to stem hunger in a pioneering Spanish colony, carabao-horn spoons to maintain quiet during meals of nuns loyal to a vow of silence, banquets and balls of the well-heeled and the noble, devilâ€™s ice, Christâ€™s food, seditious plottings at the Kingâ€™s bakery in Intramuros, the mythical pygmy Dinahon who introduced the kalan and the palayok, the early lumpia, the origins of carinderia, and much more.
The Governor-Generalâ€™s Kitchen: Philippine Culinary Vignettes and Period Recipes, 1521â€“1935