Guampedia Newsletter, May 2020 | Page 3
by donating to the GoFundMe campaign “PPE For Guam COVID-19 Response.” • Donate supplies: If you’re a business that’s bringing in and selling essential supplies – such as masks and rubbing alcohol – donate a portion of what you’re importing to health-care workers, hospitals and clinics. • Drop off groceries, essentials, and supplies to their home: If you know a nurse, the odds are she or he hasn’t had time to do much shopping lately, what with the lines of people waiting to just get into grocery stores. Now could be a great time to check if any nurses you know need a few supplies dropped off at home. • Arrange for a delivery of takeout food: Check first with the clinic’s/ hospital’s nursing unit manager to see if takeout food can be accepted. If it can, treat some hard-working nurses to a well-deserved meal! Here’s a list of restaurants offering takeout and delivery. • Send them some money: With PayPal and Venmo, it’s easy. • Stay home. And if you are going to the doctor, call ahead: "If you’re exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, like a fever or a cough, it’s extremely important that you do not rush to the doctor’s office for a test. First of all, there are limited testing kits available, so they may not even be able to test you. Secondly, COVID-19 is a virus, which means unless you are meet the CDC’s criteria for testing or experience complications, it’s best to stay home to recover and minimize spreading the infection to others.” – from www.nurses.com May 7: • Vesak – On Vesak, millions of Buddhists all over the world commemorate events of significance to Buddhists of all Continued on Page 4
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at the time. There is still a section of Inarajan known as “As Gani” today. The St. Joseph Church is named after the village’s patron saint of San Jose or St. Joseph. It contains a large statue of St. Joseph that, according to oral tradition, was brought to Guam
by the Spanish, who intended to bring it to Umatac. But a storm prevented the ship from going to Umatac, and it ended up landing in Inarajan, where the statue remained. Learn more about this southern village in the Guampedia entry “Inarajan (Inalåhan).”
The influences of many cultures are evident on Guam’s fiesta tables. Peter (Sonny) Ada
Melting pot? Look at the table!
The influences of ethnic diversity brought on by sea trade, colonialism and migration, can be seen in architecture, language, religion and are also evident in the cuisine found in restaurants, homes tables across the island and on the fiesta tables of today. The “Guampedia Fiesta Table Project” showcases the diversity of Guam’s community. Locally produced video vignettes showing step-by-step dish preparation are also featured as part of this project. While some dishes originated in the Marianas, some dishes’ origins can be traced back to various places from throughout the world – the Pacific, Europe, Asia, and North and South America. Guam’s native people, however, have a great knack for “CHamoruizing” things, including food, making them uniquely their own.
People brought different plants and knowledge of food preparation to the island but their recipes were adapted to what was available locally and to CHamoru tastes. Eventually, through the decades, the dishes met the approval of local palates and were incorporated onto fiesta tables as “local” dishes.
A fiesta line in Yigo in 2006. Leevin Camacho
