food heritage

Tausug cuisine simmering beside a window, sea breeze and smoke folding into the room.

On Tausug Cuisine

Tausug cuisine sits on the tongue like tide. A sip of broth, smoke clinging, pepper biting soft, then sharp. Hands tear bread.

November 4, 2025

A fifty dollar plate of Filipino fine dining held in soft light, steam rising like a remembered river

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

October 29, 2025