Food has always been a primary means of survival since time immemorial. It was not just taken for granted nor taken for the sole of satiating our ancestor’s hunger. Food was given of highest significance because before it was taken, it was asked first from the supernatural force or divine providence called Magbabaya. 

Back in the days when the domination of Iron Age has not yet happened and commercial food manufacturing has not yet flourished, our indigenous people thrive for organic food. Void of modern science, our forefathers relied heavily in nature for food source. They even perform rituals in their hunting, catch, preparation, and even after consumption. 

Food, in our historical timepiece has never been voided of spiritual significance. Food was always concomitant with ethereal influences directed to certain deities and surreal forces seeking for their blessing, nourishment, and protection. Out of repeated conventions, these rituals have become our ancestors’ practices, practices that have turned into culture – the culture of gratifying and reconnecting to nature who have provided humanity their dire needs. It has been enchanted into every individual and is still being performed by few until this recent time. However, due to modernization, the practices that once defined the lives of our indigenous people are gradually losing its cultural significance.

With this, Kolehiyo ng Pantukan designed a food hub ‘Kakaan‘ to sensationalize and bring back the once lost art, historical worth, and science of Pantukan’s indigenous peoples’ food. This hub will redeem the fading, the deconstructed, and the vanished victual relics of the Municipality.

Kakaan will serve the Pantukan and the whole Davao Region soon!