• GILBERT P. BAYORAN Participants from Talisay City, Negros Occidental at the 3-day Youth Forum on Heritage at The Magikland in Silay City on Thursday.
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Puyat on Tuesday personally attended the launch of an 82-page cookbook entitled “Negrense Heritage Cooking” held at the historic Casa Gamboa in Silay City. She said the project will greatly contribute to the Department of Tourism’s continued promotion of culinary tourism despite the on-going pandemic.
The DOT-led event was in partnership with the Slow Food Negros Community, Negros Museum, and Provincial Government of Negros Occidental.
“My heartfelt congratulations to everyone who worked on this wonderful cookbook. Negros Heritage Cooking is a testament to the culinary traditions of the region, filled with recipes that tell the stories of ingenuity, creativity and passion,” Puyat said.
Published December 29, 2020, 10:00 AM
Despite the pandemic, Slow Food International, a global organization that promotes local food cultures and heritage, pushes their 13th Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, their largest worldwide festival on food, environment, and food policies.
Terra Madre 2020 is a mix of digital and physical events happening in over 160 countries. For the Philippine chapter, they’ve lined up multiple activities for different regions, which involves an online food talk series that is currently on-going via Slow Food Negros Community’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.
One of the episodes of the food talk series tackles urban farming. In Bacolod, a garden sits in a backyard that used to be a garbage dump. The area was then unoccupied, not until when Anabel Villanueva-Salacata, a retired infectious disease doctor and owner of Twenty Six Herb Garden, decided to transform the lot into an edible garden. “You do not have to have a 2,000 or 3,000 sqm or a hecta