The Pilgrim's Pots and Pans

A preview of what is to come…

The picture on the left is of regular lowland irrigated palé which will become abias and then nasi.

In English this time: Palé is Capampangan for standing rice stalks and the unhusked rice grains. Milling would turn it into abias and when cooked is called nasi. In Tagalog, those terms would be palay, bigas and kanin respectively.

On the right is the rainfed lacatan malutu or red-husked glutinous rice used for duman. I took the palé picture on a cool afternoon sometime in the summer (April-May) while the lacatan was photographed at mid-morning Sunday, 30 October, last week – but both sheafs of grain are approximately of the same age, based on how they bow to the sun.