Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
- Harriet Van Horne
In rural areas in the country, kitchens would always have a dapug – the Hiligaynon word for a raised platform in the kitchen where cooking is done by fire through earthen stoves. The floor of the platform has layers of hard-pressed soil and ashes. Pots and pans are placed underneath or hanged on the sides. On top of the dapug are stacked firewood supported by widely spaced bamboo slits for flooring. The wood are left to dry by smoke and heat.
Featured is my aunt cooking in her kitchen’s dapug lighted by a kerosene lamp. Fried rice was on the menu that night complemented by boiled eggs and dried dilis (anchovies) saute’d in garlic, onions and tomatoes seasoned with vinegar and soy sauce.
Nice story. It reminds me of our own dapug. I hate cleaning it. I just love the cooking and the eating part.
Oh, now you’ve gone and done it! I’m hungry.
I’ve never seen a dapug before. Interesting……
Oh, where are my manners?!
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I’ve never heard of this. The fried rice sounds delicious. I make it too, but haven’t put in the anchovies. Hope you’re feeling better.
may ara man tarayhup si tita mo? ang kawayan na bla nga daw tubo? tapos dira ka mahuyop kung gusto mo magdaku ang kalayo? i miss that in our kitchen.
love this picture Mark, you made the dapug really look alive, the colors of flame and the smoke coming out from the rice, hmmm! i’ve never had that dilis sauteed in garlic, onions and tomatoes with vinegar. is it fresh ancovies or dried? guess i will have to try making it too.
salamat sa visit. glad to meet another fellow photo enthusiast
added you on my blogroll already.
nice one. it depicts a pinoy na pinoy way of cooking.
hanggang ngayon sa amin sa probinsya gumagamit pa din ng ganyan. sabi nila mas masarap daw ang luto sa ganyan kesa sa gasul.
heto na ako, muling nagbabalik…. Kumusta na ka na! pasensya na kung medyo hindi nakakapasyal sa bahay mo, medyo naging busy lang.
ingatz…
Hi Mark, this dapug really reminded me of the one we used to have back home. And wow! as if I can smell what your Aunt is cooking. Hidlaw na gid ko sa balingon. haha!
oh yes dapug. haha. despite having our kitchen renovated, my mom still prefer to cook in our dapug hehe…
congrats on your coffee table book…
Dapug amo man gihapon ang word used sa Mindanao. Tama guid ang description. Eksakto…,mas nami ang damil sa lutong dapug –ngaa?
totoo ba yun? iba raw lasa ng food pag niluluto sa palayok saka sa dapug? lalo raw sumasarap?
“Fried rice, boiled eggs, dried dilis saute’d in garlic, onions and tomatoes seasoned with vinegar and soy sauce” — sana pag-gising ko bukas, ito ang breakfast sa refectory…. dream on siopao… dream on!
kaibigan ..how i missed the dapug….western visayas me galing na napadpad dito sa eternal city of Rome.
salamat sa add…..ill do the same….
Thanks blurose…. What part of western visayas are you from? I’m from Bacolod…
im from kalibo, aklan
it reminds me of cooking rice using charcoals while i was still in sta. rosa with aubrey. it was my first time to try it and was afraid i might overcook the rice. luckily, i did what her mom taught me and was proud to cook rice several times without the “dukot.”
dapug in cebuano? in batangan, it’s tungko.ü gusto ko ang picture mong ito dahil dalawang kulay lang, ang galing ng halo, may warmth ka talagang mararamdaman.
haha. ara man gyapon amon dapog sa uma. wala siya naglakat, ako lang.