Finally, the last batch of winning essays in the Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award has been edited and laid out in the book “Savor the Word.”
The Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award 2013 has three major winners, while three entries garnered honorable mention.
Choosing the subject matter every year for the Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award (DGF Award) is a delightful chore. From the 11th year of the competition in 2013 up to the 22th edition in 2022, the board has decided that the focus should be on ingredients used in cooking.
Is this the Bagoong of the Mountains?” That title was certainly enough to make the judges curious, but the writing also turned out to be more than enough to bag first place for essay in the Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award (DGF) for 2017.
My first book on Filipino food took me up north in Ilocos to down south in Tawi-Tawi for three...
