Jollibee and Filipino Longing
A Filipino food essay on Jollibee as a place of comfort abroad, where fried chicken and sweet spaghetti offer rest from assimilation.
Urban Filipino Gardening and the Taste of Everyday Food
A Filipino food essay on how balcony-grown sili and traded kangkong reclaim space, flavor, and small acts of food sovereignty in the
Puto Bumbong And Banana Leaf As Vessels Of Taste
Bamboo tubes and banana leaf packets at a dawn church stall show how puto bumbong and other kakanin turn their cooking vessels
Food Inequality in Filipino Dining
Food inequality smells like hot garlic rice under a heat lamp. Steam on skin. A line that shuffles, slow. Metal trays clang.
Filipino Bagoong and Belonging
Filipino bagoong opens and the room tightens. A pink blur on the spoon. A salt-copper bloom that feels like tidewater in the
Filipino Fine Dining and the Fifty Dollar Plate
Steam slides off a bowl. Sour, then a shy sweetness. I taste fish, then miss it, then it returns. Filipino fine dining
Typhoon Season Recipes as Memory
Typhoon season recipes begin before the wind speaks. Kerosene breath. A pot with a dent. The first metallic sip from the tap,
Zero Waste Cooking in the Filipino Kitchen, Compost as Memory
Zero waste cooking starts, for me, with the small splash of water at the back of my lola’s house in Pampanga.Metal tabo
Digital Food Culture, Gutom and the Vanishing Savor
Digital food culture in the Philippines turns eating into image, from Instagram food photography to Filipino food on social media and #gutom
Diabetes and Food: Filipino Table Rituals Under Pressure
The first time I heard the phrase diabetes and food at our table, it slipped out between the scrape of a spoon
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