What it takes to be a food writer
The annual August rains didn’t diminish the crowd that trooped to the Philippine Readers and Writers Festival of National Book Store at its sponsor hotel, Raffles in Makati, last week.
The annual August rains didn’t diminish the crowd that trooped to the Philippine Readers and Writers Festival of National Book Store at its sponsor hotel, Raffles in Makati, last week.
At lunch last year in Paniqui, Tarlac, the host showed me a cookbook printed by the Metropolitan Press in 1939 that was translated from the original Tagalog by a Valentina Basilio. It was a surprise to see that Filipinos still cook the dishes of the prewar period.
Looking at the list of herbs as subject for a book, I was surprised that it included the guisa (saute) triumvirate of garlic, onions and tomatoes. I used to think
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