RACHEL A.G. REYES
RACHEL A.G. REYES

FERDINAND Marcos liked to say that he preferred to eat “simple, Filipino food.” He claimed to like mainly fish, seafood and common garden vegetables: sardines eaten with leafy malunggay, ludong, a now rare and very expensive freshwater mullet found in the Cagayan River in Northern Luzon, and scallops stir-fried with broccoli. Like most dictators who did all they could to prolong their lives, Marcos believed that an unadornedfish diet slowed the ageing process and enhanced the libido. Every now and again, however, according to Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott’s amusing book, Dictators’ Dinners: A bad taste guide to entertaining tyrants,published last year, Marcos would abandon his ‘fishophilic’ inclinations and tuck into deep fried ribs slathered with salad dressing.

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