FILIPINO COOKBOOK
Introduction by Doreen Fernandez

Exotic Recipes of the Philippines
The Maya Kitchen

  • New
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Genre: Non-Fiction: Cookery
  • Glossy Paperback
  • 153 pages, including Glossary
  • Publisher: Anvil Publishing, Philippines
  • Printed: 2005
  • Size: 17.5 x 25.5 cm
  • ISBN: 9712713415
  • Weight: 205g

THE FILIPINO COOKBOOK gathers together recipes from all the facets and phases of Philippine cuisine. The indigenous tradition the cooking native to our land, climate and lifestyle is represented by such dishes as KINLAW, SINIGANG, BULANGLAN, PAKSIW. These dishes, which from the Malay matrix of our cooking, are kin to the dishes of our Southeast Asian neighbors, use ingredients found in the landscape, and often carry vernacular names. They are dishes turned to our ways: for example sinigang and ninakol are not soups in the western mode, because they are not just mealstarters, but meals in themselves. Our meals and ways of eating have their own rhythms and reasons (we wet our rice with the broth; we use the meats and vegetables as ULAM).

TEST KITCHENS come to the rescue of tradition, and of today's cook. They research recipes heard bout and kept in oral tradition or in memory. They retrieve proportions and procedures, then test and confirm them scientifically (what is "una cucharada?" how much is "katamtaman lang?"). They adapt ingredients and processes (eg, use wheat flour instead of galapong if you don't have th time or equipment to grind rice) to the kitchens and schedules of contemporary housewives.

IN THIS BOOK, we not only find dishes to put on our tables round the clock, day to day, and on special occasions. In its selection of recipes are reflected our history, our social setting, our lifestyle, and our taste for food and life.

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