VISITORS and residents of Taysan in Batangas hold a barbecue street party on Nov. 11 to cap off the week-long celebration of the 1st Tinindag Festival and the town’s 100th founding anniversary. Hundreds of families in the second-class municipality of over 98,000 residents are engaged in the home-based manufacture of barbecue sticks using the abundant local bamboo supply. “Stick-making is done in all Taysan’s 20 barangays, but bulk of production comes from Barangay Pinagbayanan, Barangay Guinhawa and Barangay Piña,” Leah Caguitla, 35, mother of six, who continued her parents’ stick-making business, said a in a statement released by the Department of Tourism (DoT). The town also produces nipa huts, furniture, baskets, and other bamboo handicrafts.
