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Four researchers are mysteriously transported to postwar Lipa City, where they discover that the revival of traditional kakanin during the first fiesta after the war was not driven by written cookbooks, but by memory, community, and lived experience. As they meet various vendors and cooks, they realize that these delicacies survive in different ways—through strict tradition, shared practice, daily labor, necessity, personal choice, and deep ties to place. Each encounter reveals that culinary her