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Baked Breadfruit

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Title (Dublin Core)

Baked Breadfruit

Description (Dublin Core)

Baked breadfruit is a typical Samoan traditional food. Fully ripe breadfruit is baked or boiled for Samoans to enjoy as a common staple starch. Samoans eat breadfruit for everyday meals and in large feasts or celebrations. The video shows my family setting the baked breadfruits on the table to cool down before packing them to be sent over with my cousin leaving the island. Before the pandemic, whenever one of our close friends or family members left the island, my family always prepared baked breadfruits for them to bring over to us here in the states. Now, we could only enjoy the sight of it through video chats with my parents back home. To prepare for this delicious delicacy, we prepare everything the day before the cooking. If you are to visit Samoa, Sunday is the day when every family is baking breadfruit. Sundays are considered feast days or holidays in Samoa. We enjoy baked breadfruits every Sunday after church and other delicious home-cooked Samoan dishes. While we can also enjoy baked breadfruits here in the states using an oven, we can barely find any excellent, fully ripe breadfruits in-store in Washington. And besides, I know it will never bring the same taste as I grew up enjoying back home.

Date (Dublin Core)

January 8, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Anasitasia Vaitele

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Anasitasia Vaitele

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

video

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Food & Drink
English Home & Family Life
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

breadfruit
Samoan
baking
tradition
family
recipe

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

breadfruit

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

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Anasitasia Vaitele Biography Sheet

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/26/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/03/2022
05/29/2022
06/07/2022

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This item was submitted on March 26, 2022 by Anasitasia Vaitele using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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