All about Filipino Cuisine and Culture
Links to articles, recipes, videos and other features sharing my love and knowledge about Filipino cuisine and culture
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REcipe: Karioka with Don papa Rum salted coconut caramel
Don Papa Rum partnership, 2020
Recipe and video for karioka (deep-fried glutinous rice balls)
REcipe: Bistek tagalog
Philippine Department of Tourism partnership, 2020
Recipe and cookalong video for bistek tagalog (beef and onions in calamansi and soy sauce)
REcipe: Binakol
Filipino Food Movement partnership, 2020
Recipe and cookalong video for binakol (coconut water chicken stew)
An Adobo of Forking Paths
Vittles, 2020
Introducing Filipino adobo, and demonstrating what a flexible dish it can be, producing many thousands of variants
Dirty Kitchens
Kitchens, a zine by Lecker Podcast, 2021
Looking at the Filipino ‘dirty kitchen’ and its place within Filipino cuisine and culture
Ain’t no Party like a pungko-pungko Party
Pit Magazine, Vol. 11 2021
Eating pungko-pungko - especially ginabot - during Cebu City’s Sinulog celebrations, and understanding what it means for Cebuanos
A white cheese by any other name
CHEESE Magazine, Issue 3 2022
My search for the Filipino white cheese, kesong puti, taking in its history and cultural significance - and how it relates to other white cheeses
San Miguel Beer: A story of Filipino Beer, A story of the Philippines
Sourced Journeys, 2022
The history of San Miguel beer, and how it is so intertwined with that of the Philippines
Let’s cook with Nora
Eaten Magazine, No. 14 2022
Looking at the impact that the influential Nora Daza, the first Filipino ‘celebrity chef’, had on Filipino cuisine - particularly in the usage of processed goods
Top Banana
Pit Magazine, Vol. 13 2022
The history of banana ketchup, and how it has become a marker of identity for many Filipinos, particularly in the diaspora
Bahay Kubo, A Song of the Philippines
Vittles, 2022
When singing ‘Bahay Kubo’, the popular Tagalog folk song, to my daughter, I reflect on what it says about the Philippines and Filipino-ness
Starting with Silog
Whetstone Magazine, Vol. 11 2023
Looking at how Filipino food has changed over the years, and how what we might consider to be traditions are established along the way
Bahay Kubo
Eaten Magazine, No. 17 2023
A history of the folk song, ‘Bahay Kubo’: how it went from being a regional folk song about vegetables, to being a key part of a nation-building curriculum
Six of one: kilig
Vittles, 2024
A short entry recommending KiliG, a Filipino-Colombian restaurant in Deptford, southeast London - part of the Vittles Six of One series