Tostado Festival – Eating and Street Dancing for Everyone

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TOSTADO FESTIVAL

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Santander is popular for its Tostado Festival every 3rd Sunday of April where they showcase their famous “Tostado” and other delicacies. Tostado is a local delicacy in the town. It’s a home-baked cookie with delicious taste and the procedures and secret ingredients in making a really delicious tostado have been handed down from generations to generations.

Tostado festival gives honor to the delicacy that have made Santander popular. Of course, there are a lot of things that can be attributed to Santander, but when you mention the town anywhere you go, people will remember the Tostado.

The festival focuses on the town’s famous delicacy, the “tostado”. The street dancing which is the highlight of the festivity uses the different movements of making a tostado in the dance participated in by the different barangays.

The street dancing, which is the highlight of the festivity, uses the different movements of making a tostado, and is participated by the different barangays. The town’s fiesta is also in honor of their patron, St. Gabriel. The festival is meant to promote the tostado industry of the town to other places. Read More: http://mingsworld.com/santander-cebu

Photo from: http://cebutravelnews.blogspot.com/2011/04/tostado-festivals-of-santander-cebu.html

The festival focuses on the town’s famous delicacy, the “tostado”. A locally made cookie, researches failed to establish as to when and how or from whom the baking of these cookies originated. For the residents of Santander, these cookies made of sugar, flour, eggs, baking soda and shortening have been sold in their place for as long as they can remember. The street dancing which is the highlight of the festivity uses the different movements of making tostado in the dance participated in by the different barangays. Read More: http://www.tourganize.com/article/blog/2015/08/23/cebu-festivals-that-you-should-visit/

Photo from: http://mingsworld.com/santander-cebu

The local town festival is named after its famous product, the tostado. A locally made cookie, researches failed to establish as to when and how or from whom the baking of these cookies originated. For the residents of Santander, these cookies made of sugar, flour, eggs, baking soda and shortening have been sold in their place for as long as they can remember.

Launched in April 2006 as highlight of the activities of the town fiesta, the tostado festival is among the first festivals conceptualized among Cebu’s towns. The festival has since brought more life and color in the townfolks’ celebration of the fiesta of the town’s patron, St. Gabriel Archangel.

Not only that, the festival has given pride to the people of Santander as its dancers have since been joining prestigious events in Cebu and Mandaue Cities, with dignitaries and visitors from other provinces and countries as audience. Showing local culture and tradition by depicting the steps in making the tostado, this festival serves as the world’s window to Santander. Read More: http://santander.gov.ph/index.asp?getwhatmenu=2&getid=3&getwhatplugin=9&infolinkids=38

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