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The Word We Cannot Translate The first time someone outside the culture asks what pakikisama means, you reach for an English equivalent and feel it slip out of your hand. "Get...
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The Word for a Full Table: What Salu-Salo Means Before salu-salo was a noun for a gathering, it was a verb you did with your hands. The root, "salo," means to catch. To cup yo...
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There is a moment, just before everyone digs in, when a boodle fight goes quiet. The banana leaves are down, glistening and overlapping along the length of the table. Mounds...
Read More →Photo by Elly Mar Tamayor on Pexels You have seen the photos: a long table draped in banana leaves, rice running down the middle like a spine, grilled fish and pork and ...
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Walk into any Filipino home during mealtime, and you'll hear the same warm invitation: "Kain na!" (Come, eat!). It doesn't matter if you're family, friend, or a stranger who jus...
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