I just came across this very informative post from ILoveIloilo blog. I remember seeing this salt, budbud , on Food Magazine but it has little info about it. Curiosity led me online and discovered this feature from Inday Hami's blog. So I thought of sharing the photo and some snippets of the said blog entry written by Archie E. Nacional. I remember that every time my mother my mother does her marketing chores, she always looks for budbud . So I wondered. What’s so special about this salt of Miagao? Why on earth is my mother so devoted to it? Perhaps, this is the right time to satisfy my curiosity. I may learn much information about budbud while doing this article. I found out from the book of Failagao entitled “History of Miagao” that the salt-making industry in Miagao originated in Barangay Guibongan in the year 1823. Actually, from my personal interviews with budbud salt-makers, there are three salt varieties identified in Western Visayas. These are the budbud of Miagao , the...