As predicted, Filipino food is at the front and center of the culinary world and no less than two new cookbooks have been published and put out for all the world to see.
The Filipino Family Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from our Home Kitchen is food writer, stylist and author Angelo Comsti’s follow-up to his widely successful 2013 book From Our Table to Yours: A Collection of Filipino Heirloom Recipes and Family Memories.
It will be launched on Sat, Nov 8, at Powerbooks in Greenbelt, Makati, at 4pm. If the book is any indication, it’s going to be super yummy affair.
Because over 50 dishes from different kitchens across the country, and across generations are featured in The Filipino Family Cookbook. Some recipes date back to as far as the 1940s, while some, like the famous Adobo, make a couple of appearances, albeit in different forms.
Here’s where it gets absolutely exciting: some of Manila’s favorite chefs like Robby Goco (of Charlie’s, Green Pastures fame) and Jesse Sincioco (Have you eaten at 100 Revolving Restaurant yet?), plus 39 other figures in the local food industry have shared their favorite family recipes in the book.
Angelo, an author and a chef himself, has shared one such recipe from his family’s cookbook: Guinataang Halo-Halo. “It’s one dish the whole family, including relatives and aunts, would feast on and even bring home. My lola would make a huge pot of it and her kids, along with nephews and nieces, would drop by her house to enjoy it.”
Summit Books meanwhile, has just put out My Angkong’s Noodles, a collection of over 100 Filipino-Chinese recipes, straight from 15 Chinoy kitchens. Written by Clinton Palanca, the book also features essay from Mara Coson, Apa Ongpin, and Doreen Fernandez, as well as photography by Neil Oshima. And just so you know, right in the middle of all this is Elizabeth Gokongwei—yup, the mother of Lisa Gokongwei, main woman of Summit Media.
Can’t wait to get our hands on both books!
The Filipino Family Cookbook (PHP845) is available in all National Bookstores and Powerbooks branches. My Angkong’s Noodles is available in all leading bookstores. It is available as an e-book (PHP500) from buqo.
