Philippine Baking Tradition

Commentary - The Philippines has, somewhat surprisingly, a well established baking tradition. The country is otherwise a standard East Asian rice culture, except for this quite important exception. Baked bread is almost universally consumed, dependent on wheat and flour imports, as the country produces no wheat. "Pan de sal", or salt bread, is a breakfast staple, produced on that demanding schedule of the typical Euro-American bakery and distribution system, as the "daily bread" of millions. Besides this the country expects a quite large variety of other breads. The typical breakfast in the Philippines CAN seem like the European continental breakfast....