Cora Relova

Appears in
Memories of Philippine Kitchens

By Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan

Published 2006

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Cora Relova, Loreto Del Mundo-Relova’s daughter, has but one memory that she would always keep with her—the memory of the dining table in their family home in Pila, Laguna, one hot afternoon around May in 1957. She says she was about ten years old then, and Frank Sinatra was singing “All the Way” on the radio. The view from the table—when the eight-foot-high sliding windows are pulled to the side—now reveals a profusion of pink bougainvilleas. But she distinctly remembers a makopa [Curacao apple] tree then.