Art Studies Oral report: Wealth and Health

8/7/2019 Art Studies Oral report: Wealth and Health

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Gilda CorderoFernandowriter, cultural icon, publisher (GCF

Books)

Visual artist, fashion designer,

playwright, art curator, producer

Received Carlos Palanca and Phil PressAwards and Gawad CCP

B.A. from St. Theresas College-

Manila, and an M.A. from the Ateneo de

Manila University.


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preserved

foods Implied a surplus

Pride of the priveleged


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preserved

foodsBEEF OR CARABAO MEAT

Batutay spicy jumbo sausages


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preserved

foodsPORK

Adobo kept in clay jars

Longaniza /hamonado nagaagaw na asim at tamis

De recado lots of garlic and pepper

Tocino


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preserved

foodsBa

calao imported codfish

Most prestigous

preserved food

Plentiful in SpainCooked as Bacalao a la

Cizcaina on Good Friday


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For Visitors Only


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For Visitors Only


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For Visitors Only


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Visitors first visit:1. Capitan del Barrio

2. Parish priest

visitors

rivalry between the capitansand priests cook


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Every Sunday, premierfamilies sent some of their

produce to church

Eggs, chicken or

fruits

Unspoken tithing

visitors


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When calling on the landlord:

Dressed in their best

Came in the back doorBrought something special own produce: native eggs,

special bananas, ulikba 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

tenants


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Took at least 2 hours to

finish tenants eat first

Talked endlessly until the

hour of merienda

If there were visitors, they

would eat until beforedinnertime

The family


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Peasants fiesta fair = landlords daily fare

do-do-do = menudo, asado, sarciado, embotido, etc.

Peasants fiesta

fare


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Turkey

Stuffed with ground porkand giblets, chorizo and

olives

Fried in a large kawa in

the backyard

Christmas, New year and

Town Fiesta

Landlords fiesta

fare


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Litson

Did not require as much

expertisePrepared by the tireless kasama

Entrails and other parts made

into dinuguan

Good cooks use blood from

inside, not those that flowed

out

Landlords fiesta

fare


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Sitsaron

Forms:

Sitsaron kabibiSitsaron bulaklak

Crinkled like a woodrose

Out of a small section of the

intestine

Several pigs needed for a

party

Costs like rare orchids

Landlords fiesta

fare


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Sitsaron

Dipped in vinegar

Not just hoi polloi (from old nipaflower)

From sugarcane, chipped,

crushed and fermented in special

wooden kabayo (presser)

Meant that one owned a rice line,

a sugarcane mill orkabiyawan

Landlords fiesta

fare


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Landlord TenantLeche flan from coconut milkTorta from green onions and

leftover egg whites

Leche flan from

carabaos milk


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Chicken breastsLandlord

KasamaFeet and head

No coarse cuts, no

bulalo in soups


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Bite-sized puto

Eaten like bread

When tired of rice

Landlord

TenantLarge puto with anise on top

Size of a full bilao


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Binuhangin or Milagrosa

Small-grained

Polished to a dazzling whiteness

a tenant is tasked to plant rice for the amos personal usePaid double

Landlord

Tenantcoarse, brown,imperfectly milled rice


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Snow white sugarLandlord

TenantMuscovado / Taklob


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Amos fruits:

(served peeled)

Sweet senorita guavas

Santol

Fleshiest avocadoPomelo

Tenants/ kasamas fruits:

Tiesa

Anonas

Sapote

Manzanitas

bawal na bawal pitasin ng kasama at binibilang ng amo ang bunga

fruits


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Amos fruits:

Smoothest, creamiest

chico

Lakatan

Plumpest sweetestmangoes

Tenants/ kasamas fruits:

Balimbing

Saba (except those used

for putsero)

bawal na bawal pitasin ng kasama at binibilang ng amo ang bunga

fruits


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Senorita guavas eaten fresh from the tree, dipped in fish

paste (thickpatis or the tunay na patis)Landlords patis is especially ordered

Thick, odorous, dark as soy sauce, vivid fish taste

Took a week to boil and reduce

fruits


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White fresh-milk pastillasLandlord

TenantUbi jam during fiesta

Fruits

Suman


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Carabaos milk

Delivered daily by tenantAt room temperature for

drinking

Heated over almost

cooked rice for pouring over

breakfast rice

milk


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water

Balon for washing clothesand watering plants

Aljibe catches rain water; for

washing plates and cooking

Rivers water for drinking;

harvested by a banca into jars


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Effects on healthPeasants grew strong and healthy

Landlords suffer from overweight,

high blood pressure, diabetes, heartcomplications, bursitis, gout


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Effects on health

people who have too much in life, and

dine too heartily and well.

Documents

Art Studies Oral report: Wealth and Health