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Culture and arts · book
No longer sold new: look for it in a library, or for a used copy.
Tausug cooking and what it says of Tausug life: the dishes, the occasions and the manners of the table, with recipes.
Norma Abubakar Abdulla's book looks at Tausug food and what it shows about Tausug social life and customs in Sulu. The Research and Development Center of Centro Escolar University in Manila published it in 1989. It runs to 215 pages, with illustrations, maps and 6 pages of references. Library records file it under the Tausug people's food, their social life and customs, and the ethnology of Sulu.
From openlibrary.org, tuklas.up.edu.ph.
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