Santa Rita, Pampanga

[3] Santa Rita is famous in Pampanga for the turones de casoy delicacy, which is a cashew candy.The largest barangays are Dila-dila and San Basilio which occupy more than half (52%) of the total municipal land area.The vice mayor heads a legislative council (Sangguniang Bayan) consisting of councilors from the Barangays or Barrios.The Local Government Unit LGU of Santa Rita, Pampanga's Elected officials for the term of 2022-2025 are: Santa Rita is the home of Dúman and Ocampo-Lansang Delicacies (Turones de Casuy, Sansrival, Uraro and other sweets that sell in SM City Malls nationwide).Dúman is made of malagkit rice (lacatan malútû) that is beaten from its husks and toasted in a clay oven.Kapampangans also like adding dúman to other dishes like fresh carabao's milk or hot chocolate as a breakfast cereal, or even ice cream.Harvested and processed through the end of December, dúman is usually eaten with fresh carabao milk (gátas damúlag) for breakfast or stirred into sucláti (drinking chocolate made with Philippine cacao).In Santa Rita, a Pampangan municipality and the epicenter of dúman production, the eagerly awaited specialty is honored annually with its own festival.Years ago, during dúman season, Santa Rita's streets rang daily with the “tok-tok” of baseball bat-sized wooden pestles hitting meter-high mortars as lacatan malútû, a red-husked variety of glutinous rice, was transformed into dúman.The Dúman Festival started in 2002, which originated from the long-standing tradition of pounding and winnowing unripe glutinous rice (lacatan).Celestino Garcia in their houses until the forces of Gen. Maximino Hizon captured him in Bacolor and took him all the way to Lepanto in the Cordilleras.Building of the church had to be delayed until the late 19th century due to economic adjuristicial conditions.As noted in its accompanying Certificate of Authenticity, the relic was part of the last batch extracted from the incorrupt body of Saint Rita on 20 August 1972.