Comments on: Filipino Cook/Food Books…

By: dee bee

dee bee — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:18:04 +0000

Currently reading “Thai Food” by David Thompson, an excellent and well-researched book, and can’t help wishing for a version covering Filipino food. This reminded me of this post. Hope to see your book published one day. I’ve reserved a place for it in our library :)

By: Libia Chavez

Libia Chavez — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:17:05 +0000

Have most of the books piled up.Am an avid recipe book collector have tons of it, except for maybe 50 or so titles most I get from sale, garage, used books sale ukay ukay books anywhere I go. I have an Apicius cookbook and a german sausage book where I only understand maybe 2 words i remember from german 10. Very good reading for me are:Slow food, memoirs of a Filipino Kitchen and Felice Sta Maria’s book, (although a friend who is an Ambeth Ocampo fan says the latter it is not reader- friendly;) all of Doreen Fernandez books (Kilawin i particularly like because it says much about what can be found all over the island – but maybe that is more Ed Alegre). I did not see Signature Dishes of the Philippines by Sony Florendo, that too is a good cook book.
I too read cookbooks as I read novels and travelogues and I do cook those that i find interesting from the reading.

Many cookbooks in the bookstores in the Philippines are indeed not kitchen tested, you may find such atrocius combination of ingredients as 5 cups coconut milk and 1/2 cup rice for a champorado, my daughter-in-law who is only starting to learn to cook tried it and my 6 year old grandson said: “oh it sort of made me want to vomit after” Or an adobo recipe for 1 chicken and 1 cup vinegar.
Id like to know where to get a copy of Fishes of the Philippines, ( I had a a yellowed, brittle copy of a monograph printed by the US Wildlife when the Philippines was still a colony ( not to say it no longer is in some ways), which i retrieved from someone’s garbage and photocopied . With the handling, the pages of the original just disintegrated!!

Too long comment, got carried away. Thanks just recently discovered this blog.

Best regards

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:32:44 +0000

marlazz, I did a pre-release review of the book, Memories of Philippine Kitchens, here. I also ate in and wrote about their restaurant, Cendrillon, here. the book is also in the stack photographed above. :)

By: marlazz

marlazz — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:37:54 +0000

You should look into ‘Memories of Filipino Kitchens’, which I recently discovered and gifted to our hosts when we where travelling. It’s authored by the chef/owner of a Filipino restaurant in NYC. It’s a cookbook but so much more.

yes, the Nora Daza book is a classic.

By: CecileJ

CecileJ — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:04:53 +0000

Lee, apicionado nga ako, may MarketMan-ia pa!