🌱 Foodways 🍽️

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Quick Overview!

Gardening and food sharing were common in the Pajaro Valley Filipino American community. These practices can be considered part of the community's "foodways," or the social, cultural, and economic practices related to the consumption and production of food. 

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🔍 Guiding Questions 🔍

• What role did gardening and food sharing play in the Filipino American community of the Pajaro Valley? 
• How did the community express Filipino American identity through food? 
• What can you learn about a community by studying its food production and consumption practices?

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📚 Suggested Secondary Source Readings and Additional Resources 📚

Dao, Alana. “How Asian Americans Use Kitchen Gardens to Reclaim Their Heritage Links to an external site..” HuffPost, HuffPost, 30 Apr. 2021.

Mabalon, Dawn Bohulano. "American as Jackrabbit Adobo: Cooking, Eating, and Becoming Filipina/o American before World War II Links to an external site." in Robert Ku, Martin Manalansan, and Anita Mannur eds. Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Tagami, Jeff. “Mussel Rock/Low Tide-Santa Cruz, California 1959” in October  Links to an external site.Light Links to an external site.. San Francisco: Kearny Street Workshop Press, 1987. 

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