Filipinos know bawang by smell before sight. It is the first thing in the pan, the base of almost every dish, the ingredient that makes a kitchen smell like home.
The bulb in silver metal, skin pulled back, the cloves laid bare. White sapphire pavé accents the pale flesh of freshly exposed garlic. One of the ‘big 3’ staples of traditional ‘gisa’(saute). The flavor everything else begins with.
Sterling silver plated in yellow gold · white sapphire pavé · high polish finish.
First of a three-piece series on the essential Filipino spice trinity for ‘gisa’:bawang, sibuyas, kamatis.
