Maria Y. Orosa: Food hero

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Unlike Sen. Cynthia Villar, I cannot live without onions, a staple in our daily cooking. My cook complained the other day about the price of onions at P380 a kilo. It is an increase from P200 a kilo

some weeks ago when no white onions could be found. Today, P380 will buy you white or red onions or a mix of red and white. She paid P87 yesterday for seven small red onions or one-fourth kilo.

The conversation with my cook led me to the recipes of Maria Y. Orosa, collected and published posthumously, 25 years after she was killed by shrapnel during the 1945 Battle for Manila. Today, she is best remembered for the Ermita street leading to Robinson’s mall, which was renamed “Florida” in her honor.

Writing in 1941, she noted that of the P22,256,272 spent on imported canned and preserved food the year before, P9,692,054 was spent on wheat flour alone. She wrote: Last weekend, I went to the stalls of fruit vendors in Tabaco, Albay, and was floored to find nothing but imported grapes, oranges, and apples. No bayabas or sweet sampaloc in sight. There were a few overripe mangoes in the bargain bins. Nobody was selling any local fruit juices or preserves, but all stores had pili in either sweet or savory form. When I was invited to dinner, I was offered Norwegian salmon instead of locally sourced fish.

 

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