His four children were very healthy and smart. I wondered how this could happen when they were too poor to eat rice and had to contend with boiled green bananas or gabi every day. ManilaBulletin
His four children were very healthy and smart. I wondered how this could happen when they were too poor to eat rice and had to contend with boiled green bananas or gabi every day.A month after Martial Law was declared 51 years ago, I took a leave from the 24/7 job, which was so demanding it was driving me nuts. Away from it all was my main goal when I chose to visit a friend in the never-heard-of town of Guinayangan, Quezon.
The locals were eating camote, gabi , boiled green saba bananas, ground corn, and kamoteng kahoy . The residents of Barrio Manlayo, all fishermen, bartered fresh and dried fish, salt, seaweeds, and vegetable seeds for farm produce brought down from the mountains once a week by kaingeros and other settlers. No money changed hands.
Their next voyage rewarded me with salinyasi , which I simmered for hours in a deep palayok , submerged in coconut oil, garlic, onions, bay leaves, and chili peppers. The “poor man’s diet” of fermented fish for protein and boiled bananas or root crops for carbohydrates, vitamins, and other nutrients is much healthier than city folks’ modern meals based on expensive white rice.
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