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FREEDOM MENU. Invitation card to the September 29, 1898 Malolos banquet issued by the Commission on Festivities. Retrato Collection of the Filipinas Heritage LibraryAccording to Nick Joaquin, there are two crucial documents in the birth of the Filipino nation: the Malolos Constitution and the printed menu for the Malolos banquet on Sept. 29, 1898.
The sole surviving copy of the printed menu—which bore the words Libertad, Fraternidad y Igualidad —has been preserved in the museum of Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro. According to public historian Ambeth Ocampo, he found a review of this “Fiesta Nacional” in the Oct. 2, 1898 issue of the anti-Filipino Spanish newspaper La Cometa as well as in the Oct. 1 and 2, 1898 issues of La Republica Filipina, the official newspaper of the Malolos government.
Based on the original menu, members of the Malolos convention were served seven kinds of appetizers, followed by main courses and choices of cheese and desserts, and capped by a progression of red wine, champagne, sherry, and cognac—and to end all meals—a choice between coffee or tea.
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