{"title":"[Blog] Food by Region","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"linamnam-eating-ones-way-around-the-philippines","title":"Linamnam: Eating One's Way Around the Philippines","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFrom the blurb in the book’s back cover: A foodie couple eats their way around the Philippines in search of the proverbial Holy Grail. In this culinary travel guide book, not only do they lead the reader to the best eats every region has to offer, scouring the length and breadth of the archipelago, but also the why’s and how’s of what makes each dish unique and outstanding in its own right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAs staunch keepers of the flame of traditional Philippine cuisine (albeit leaning to Kapampangan), the couple discovers the sheer variety and intricacies of this multi-layered cuisine, making it easier for the uninitiated to better understand what makes the Filipino eat what he eats, debunking the pronouncements of armchair pundits that Filipino cuisine is all brown, oily and unappetizing. 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Some dishes come from Kapampangan daily fare, like Suam a Tulya; others like Lengua Legislativa come from festive tables, especially those of the legendary Capitan Joaquin Arnedo Cruz, his wife Capitana Maria Sioco de Tanjutco\/Arnedo, and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, of whom the author is one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580988743972,"sku":"PB-10028","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/products\/Cocina_2BSulipena_2Bno_2BBG_b47a9d8d-7a81-4792-a0b0-efb73f17b93a.jpg?v=1751981871"},{"product_id":"atching-lillians-heirloom-recipes","title":"Atching Lillian’s Heirloom Recipes by Lillian Mercado-Lising Borromeo","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eAtching Lillian’s Heirloom Recipes is wonderful collection of traditional cooking of Pampanga, the culinary capital of the Philippines. According to one historian, Pampanga has honed excellent cooks and strong culinary traditions because it was the food basket of Manila. This book offers the opportunity to learn from one of the pillars of Kapampangan cuisine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580988940580,"sku":"PB-10034","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/Atching_Lillian_s_Heirloom_Recipes.jpg?v=1783905057"},{"product_id":"negrense-heritage-cooking","title":"Negrense Heritage Cooking","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFrom the Introduction: My aunt and godmother, Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, wrote about food and its history long before the advent of digital platforms. One thing I learned from her is that there is always a story behind a certain dish or ingredient. That is the beauty of appreciating all kinds of food, whether it came from a \u003cem\u003ecarinderia\u003c\/em\u003e, a 5-star hotel, or a Michelin-star establishment. Her husband, Wili Fernandez, was the ultimate foodie. When he would go abroad, he would stalk all these places. He loved all those stalls in Hong Kong where the waiter would just look at the size of the plates, and he know how much your bill was. He also loved lavish dining where one had to dress up to the nines. He and Tita Doreen traveled and ate, and she put their experiences in writing. She wrote beyond what she tasted. She wrote about how a particular food is a part of our history and culture. She wrote about the joy of tasting, and not just eating. She taught her readers how to appreciate each ingredient that make up the whole dish. That is how I am, too, and, I guess the rest of the Aguinaldo and Alicia Gamboa clan. Because of that, appreciation of the Slow Food Movement Advocacy has become even more meaningful for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eMy great grandfather, grandfather and father were farmers. I am now a fourth generation farmer still learning the ropes. However, I do realize one thing, we must not let our indigenous food sources disappear. Food sources we take for granted like \u003cem\u003ebalunggay\u003c\/em\u003e, banana, the coconut tree, \u003cem\u003elupo\u003c\/em\u003e and others must be protected. It has become a personal mission for me as I slowly replant those that have been forgotten and try to protect what is left of those food sources, including poultry and meat. -Reena Gamboa\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580989694244,"sku":"PB-10050","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/69_cf552215-1748-4acf-80c1-1180d1891d03.jpg?v=1751981856"},{"product_id":"flavors-of-iloilo-jardeleza","title":"Flavors of Iloilo by Rafael J. Jardeleza, Jr.","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Having Ilonggo maternal roots from Jaro and Molo, we welcome this book honoring a rich culinary heritage. It includes favorite foods like baye-baye and kalkag mentioned in a Visayan vocabulary for Panay and Cebu compiled by the Augustinian missionary Alonso de Mentrida who, in 1598, arrived in the Philippines. Manayánayá, happiness from feeding others, is the secret ingredient in Ilonggo cuisine.” - Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, Food Historian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“Every time I craved for fresh oysters, grilled fatty managat (mangrove jack fish), imbao (mangrove clams), abalone, diwal (angel wing clams), native chicken lechon, and batchoy, I'd find every excuse to go back to Iloilo. 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With all the master chefs in his life- other women he's come across who know when to be sweet or spicy-and added by his training in economic theories and practices, he valued the taste forgotten in modern alimentation and concocted his own from his cherished land of Mindanao.” - Criselda Yabes, author of The Battle of Marawi\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philippine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45580995592484,"sku":"PB-10132","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3794\/3588\/files\/61_6b673691-90cb-4477-98a2-ec0d7e702abe.jpg?v=1751981812"},{"product_id":"philippine-food-and-life","title":"Philippine Food and Life by Gilda Cordero Fernando","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eThis is the story of food and how people live in the countryside of Luzon. When talk zeroes in on food one has eaten and smelled, simmering in the old provincial kitchens, it unravels thread of memories — how people knew then what good food was, how nature was provident, how life was good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFood is as accurate a measure of one's social position. Landlords ate rich, fattening foods and sauces and suffered from bursitis and heart disease. Peasants grew strong on lowly brown rice and the milk of coconuts planted on land they never hoped to own. It was the provinces with the earliest contact or collaboration with Spain, such as Bulakan, Pampanga and Cavite, that imbibed the art of European cooking best. It colonized the native palate. The foods are what we now call our heirloom recipes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eMuch of the farm life that the informants remember is gone — the cycle of the agricultural season (miracle rice did it in), the pests they are (not pesticide-laden), the stone sugarcane crusher, the women in place in front of the stove, dreams dissolving in endless stews that was their lot to prepare. I thought these memories should be handed down since there are few ancestral houses left to go home to. Who knows? 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