Food crawl

Our male ancestors hunted for food while the womenfolk did the gathering and, I guess, the cooking, after Prometheus passed on to humanity his gift of fire.

- JULLIE Y. DAZA

Since then, we have learned to eat more than three times a day, to the point of being food-obsessed, according to a foreigner (who had yet to experience a taste of our “sisig” and “dinuguan”).

But why shouldn’t we love to eat, when our cuisine is a delicious mix of Chinese, Spanish, Malay, Indian, and native food, which includes everything from the pinakbet of the North to the curacha of Mindanao. Remember that true story of the US Marine who boasted he was not afraid of anything, until he was confronted with the challenge to eat a balut?