MARCOS

PINAKBET

From the province of Ilocos Norte, Marcos is a fourth class municipality often called by its inhabitants as the “Promise Land” because of its rich vegetation and vast fertile land. Located midway between the municipalities of Dringas and Banna, Marcos is 26 kilometers away from Laoag City, the provincial capital, having many heritage sites in and around the vicinity.

The municipality of MARCOS is set to celebrate its first Pinakbet festival, taking pride of this town’s favorite Ilokano dish locally known as pinakbet, a mix of indigenous vegetables steamed in fish sauce.

Pinakbet came from the contracted Ilokano word ‘pinakebbet’ which means “shrunk” or “shriveled.”Set on March 12-15, the first Pinakbet festival is a repository of the town’s Ani (harvest) festival being celebrated every month of March. Pinakbet is the Ilocano word for " shriveled or shrunk." The word has been applied to the dish because the vegetables, after simmering in the diluted fish paste, shrivel and shrink. Certainly there are versions of the dish in other provinces but the Ilocano variety is acknowledged to be the original so that unless one qualifies the word pinakbet, it is assumed that he is talking about the Ilocano kind.
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Marcos town mayor Arsenio Agustin said residents here derived most of their income through the harvest of their agricultural crops hence it is just fitting to name the festivity as Pinakbet festival to promote their products and, as a way of thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest.
Agustin said the three-day festivity highlights a grand parade around the town plaza and a pinakbet cook fest at the municipal gymnasium to showcase the best dish in town.

A group of balikbayans mostly from Hawaii are also expected to join the town’s festival as their way of giving back to the community where they came from; officers and members of the Marcos Association of Hawaii will be hosting a medical mission here.

Marcos town is a fourth class municipality of Ilocos Norte with more than 15,000 population or 3, 059 households based on latest census.

The town was named after the late Assemblyman Don Mariano Marcos, father of former president Ferdinand E. Marcos. It was formally separated from its mother municipality on September 11, 1963 which coincided with the birth of the late strongman.
-Calasag

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