Realizing the value of heritage in development, the municipal government of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, has recently conducted a cultural-heritage mapping project aimed to preserve and promote the town’s rich heritage.
I remember the Christmas I first fell for a boy. Literally.
Authorities literally faced a blank wall at the Marcos Museum in Batac, Ilocos Norte, on Friday, when they searched for prized artworks by world-renowned painters on orders of the Sandiganbayan.
According to Theo Cruz of San Bartolome Parish in Novaliches, there’s a Facebook campaign asking for Vatican approval of the Lipa apparitions that took place in 1948-1949.
Pinakbet pizza is old news. So is bagnet (deep-fried pork) and dinardaraan (dinuguan, blood stew) pizza. Those are served in many Ilocano eateries today, possibly confusing foreign tourists who may think that they landed in a lost town of Italy.
Farm to table. That phrase is used to indicate the freshness of ingredients used to cook a dish, how those ingredients didn’t have to stay long in storage or weren’t transported through a series of middle men.
I greet all of you this sunny Easter morning from my balcony in Sitio Remedios. This early, the folks from nearby towns are slowly filling up the beach to wash their sins away. This is the end of the rituals of Lent, after the sweaty Good Friday procession. They come to purify their souls from year- long of transgressions.
The Kannawidan foundation of Ilocos Norte tendered a dinner in honor of Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, the first Ilocano cardinal, recently.
This column welcomes the appointment of Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, OMI, of South Cotabato as the Philippines’ newest cardinal. He is the first Ilocano cardinal, having hailed from Sarrat, Ilocos Norte.
I had been to Ilocos Norte many times in the past—mostly as a guest of a friend who spent a lot of time there; and as a resident of Sarrat when we were still operating the tomato paste plant Northern Foods.
