In a recent talk titled What Recipes Don’t Tell: Women in Our Culinary History, renowned food historian Felice Prudente Sta. Maria recounts the lives of three extraordinary women who made their indelible mark in our food history, centering the kitchen as a place of empowerment: Juliana Gorricho vda. de Pardo de Tavera, Maria Y. Orosa, and Pura Villanueva Kalaw.

Hánag in Hiligaynon refers to early dawn, its soft light just before the moment of fullillumination. It refers “to the quiet persistent arrival of light–that subtle glow, the shimmeringoutline… or what can be seen as a deliberate tracing of a path yet to be fully revealed…”.

Antonio Kabigting Abad (1886-1964) is a forgotten Tagalog writer whose works deserve a second look.