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It is to show
this deeply-rooted culture of the people of Ilocos Sur, 40 icons of the
Catholic Saints were part of the procession, including those of the Virgin Mary
as Apo Namacpacan de La Union, Apo Remedios de Pangasinan, and Apo Caridad or
Our Lady of Charity, among others. The icons of Jesus Christ on
procession, too, were as Santo Nino, Señor Nazareno, Santo Cristo Milagroso of
Sinait and Vigan, and Kristo nga Ari or Nasantoan a Puso ni Hesus.
It
has developed different activities to showcase the richness of Ilocos Sur
culture and heritage. One of which became the most popular part of the festival
community food ways. Here, the meaning of food beyond the physical fact is
stressed. Food is an important tool in unravelling the culture of a community
because it belongs to a system of attitudes, beliefs and practices. They
argued, in more detail, that food is the product that belongs to food ways that
incorporate culinary smells, ingredients, sights, landscapes, sounds, eating
practices, and farming traditions of people or a region. Then, food, food ways,
cuisine and gastronomy are all part of a broader “system of communication.”
Food ways are a way of “cultural heritage by their passing of intergenerational
knowledge, taste, political power struggles, connections to nature, stories of
subsistence, local environment, human sensuality, poverty and wealth”
