Mangan Taku: A celebration of Cordillera cuisine and culture

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Mangan Taku: A solemnisation of Cordillera cuisine and culture

Mangan Taku: Exploring the Richness of Cordillera Cuisine and Culture

To observe the affluent cuisine and civilization of the country’s highland provinces, the Department of Tourism – Cordillera Administrative Region successful concern with the City Government of Baguio precocious ran the 5th variation of the Mangan Taku Cordillera Food and Wine Fair.

DOT Mangan Taku Cordillera Food & Wine Fair

Held astatine the Burnham Park’s Rose Garden, the six-day just showcased 32 exhibitors of divers nutrient and beverage items, restaurants, hotels, culinary schools, and spouse agencies and section governments.

A regular diagnostic is the Provincial Hour which had unrecorded cooking demonstrations connected prime indigenous dishes of Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Mountain Province. Adding to the excitement were Cookfest contests and Cordillera Wine Mixology competitions which pit home-grown cooks, culinary students and baristas.

La Diyang Haven Community of Tuba, Benguet

According to DOT-CAR determination manager Jovita Ganongan, Mangan Taku is simply a culinary travel which celebrates the time-honored culinary traditions of the Cordilleras that indispensable beryllium appreciated, preserved, and promoted. She added that the lawsuit is besides successful enactment with the World Food Travel Association’s thrust of promoting nutrient tourism to get a consciousness of place.

Mangan Taku, which virtually means “let’s eat”, is simply a determination mentation of the DOT’s nationalist nutrient tourism programme which highlights the diverseness and uniqueness of heirloom dishes successful the grassroots.

The just besides included the Indigenous Food Forum which served arsenic a level to delve deeper into indigenous and practice food.

Cooking demo connected Ifugao sweets by 7th Haven Cafe

Featured impermanent speakers were nutrient student Guillermo Ramos, Chef Waya Araos-Wijangco of Gypsy Baguio who talked connected sustainable nutrient accumulation and mindful consumption, Slow Food International Southeast Asia and Pacific Regional coordinator Elena Aniere, Rowena Gonnay of the Slow Food Community of Pasil, Kalinga who shared connected the town’s heirloom Rice, and Chef Chavi “Baguio Mountain Man” Romawac who discussed the revival of indigenous nutrient and entrepreneurship.

Chef Waya Araos-Wijangco astatine the Indigenous Food Forum

In photograph astatine the closing and awarding ceremonies are Baguio City politician Mayor Benjamin Magalong, DOT-CAR determination manager Jovita Ganongan, and culinary practice advocator Ige Ramos, with winners of the Mangan Taku Cookfest and the Cordillera Wine Mixology contests.

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Mangan Taku: A solemnisation of Cordillera cuisine and culture
Melo Villareal
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