Explicating the culinary heritage significance of Filipino kakanin using bibliometrics (1934–2018)

Abstract

Filipino kakanin are local rice or root crop delicacies included in the daily consumption of Filipinos as snacks in between meals; however, the traditional methods and ingredients utilized with this kakanin are gradually fading away because of modernization. All things considered, as a starting point to look at Filipino rice-based kakanin recipes. This research aimed to explicate the culinary heritage significance of Filipino kakanin through bibliometrics. A qualitative design was done using bibliometrics as library books were used to obtain the data. Results revealed from six hundred eight (608) collected rice-based kakanin recipes from eighty-nine (89) books that kakanin varies depending on its location and changes over time. Moreover, these varieties of kakanin can be grouped into fifteen (15) major clusters according to the kakanin's name, appearance, ingredients, process, and characteristics. Findings further revealed that some of this kakanin hold sentimental value to the area and locals who make it. Subsequently, the researchers constructed five (5) significance of kakanin: historical, aesthetics, culinary, social, and symbolical. Lastly, to widen the understanding of Filipino rice-based kakanin, this study encourages future research to have fieldwork on finding the traditional ingredients used in making kakanin and transmit to the next generation the traditional kakanin ways.