Comments on: Triple Chocolate “Halloween” Cookies

By: izang

izang — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:03:39 +0000

during this time, we usually cook the ginataang bilo-bilo…….the staple during halloween……

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:43:46 +0000

edee, thanks for that. As I read this link, a long-time employee just arrived this morning, Nov. 2, 2006, All Souls Day, bearing several suman or budbud and biko, their traditional foods for the day…amazing…now, out comes a mango and there goes the diet…

By: edee

edee — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:51:31 +0000

here’s an article from Inquirer about All Soul’s day cooking traditon
http://showbizandstyle.inq7.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article_id=30034

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:26:22 +0000

Ed, thanks for that. I truly love it when this site and its readers enter the realm of the more intelligent and enlightening discussions… Though I occasionally pander to an ALL OUT RANT once in a while which doesn’t require a minimum IQ at all…

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:02:43 +0000

Arghh – the rest of my post was left out!

Anyway, the aesthetic division of sacred=solemn=silent=orderly vs. profane=noisy=chaotic appears unmistakably European.

For example, it seems that only in the Philippines will one see images of Catholic saints being rocked “violently” back and forth to the sound of a brass band. (Images in Latin American countries, as far as I know, are paraded in a more “orderly” fashion.) This “rocking” is quite reminiscent of the treatment of Japanese “mikoshi” (palanquins for divine figures) and Balinese cremation towers. Perhaps these are signs of a pan-Asian treatment of religious rites? I don’t really know.