Food historian Felice Prudente Sta. Maria has launched a website and turned her Instagram account to help students of food history mine the riches of our culinary and gastronomic past By Don Baldosano KAIN NA Partial image of Chino Pansitero painted by Filipino artist Jose Lozano for the Gervasio...
Or the question is: Do you do your country proud? Love of country is a two-way street. Most of us aren’t given a chance to do our country proud, like Lea Salonga or Juan Luna or Yuka Saso, but that’s what we think. This country is made up of you and me and, in more ways than one, in a way often...
Love is all the better because I have Ruth Garcia Prudente as friend, confidant, and most of all, mother RED FOR JOY The author’s mother, Ruth Garcia Prudente Dad concurred that red has been Mom’s color from the time they met. No strictly boring, conservative black, beige, and navy for her, if...
As part of the global celebration of the Quincentennial of the First Circumnavigation, 1519-1522, the National Historical Commission launches ‘Pigafetta’s Philippine Picnic’ by Felice Sta. Maria AROUND THE WORLD IN 1,082 DAYS Detail of a map of Ferdinand Magellan's Circumnavigation “The...
Through high seas, starvation, scurvy, a mutiny, and death, Magellan arrives on the islands of the Philippines and what welcomes him? Feasts ON THE COVER This week's Panorama mirrors the cover design of the new, exciting book 'Pigafetta's Philippine Picnic' by Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, with...
I’d like to read Felice Sta. Maria ’s The Foods of Jose Rizal (Anvil, 2012), an intriguing tour of the 19th century by way of Rizal’s food adventures culled from his autobiography and correspondence, biographies written on him, interviews with people who knew him, and accounts about the...
How private kitchens in a time of crisis became a source of public strength The Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) will be presenting “Dreams of Cake and Ice Cream: Coping with Hunger in World War II” on Nov. 7 (Saturday) at 10 a.m. The talk, moderated by Desiree Benipayo , is the second of...
