Exploring Filipino Kitchens

Feb 20 2025 31 ep. 45 mins 104
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Thought-provoking talks on Philippine food history, traditions and culture from the diaspora looking in.

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EP 31: Writing the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries Series

Feb 20 2025
On this episode, we chat with author Mia Manansala about the world of her characters in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries Series novels. My kind of winter reading!

EP 30: Home, Again

Dec 29 2024 13 mins  
This season, I want to ask: Where do you call home? What's your favourite memory or experience of eating Filipino food? And why does it mean a lot to you?

EP 29: Dispatch: Stories from Toronto

Jul 11 2021 88 mins  
SHOW NOTES 05:25 Food as a cultural marker 10:10 An introduction to land acknowledgements 11:55 "How a new generation is bringing Filipino flavours to Toronto" 18:55 Regional cuisine and the Kusinera pop-up 22:50 A city of neighbourhoods 26:00 On festivals and community spaces 30:20 A world in Nations and pandemic cooking 34:15 Rural Ontario in the 60s 40:55 Trips to the Philippi

EP 28: A Few Updates

May 16 2021 13 mins  
Show notes 01:30 Why I started telling stories 03:40 Working at the Culinary Tourism Alliance 06:35 Talking Doreen's "Tikim" with Filipino Food Crawl x VICE 08:50 Joining the Pinoys on Parliament conference 10:20 I'm published in a literary anthology!

EP 27: For the Love of Panaderia and Philippine Bakery Traditions

Jan 30 2021 95 mins  
Show notes 01:50 A snapshot of Philippine foodways 04:45 Meet Amy and Jenny 08:00 How the book started 11:00 The neighbourhood bakery 13:50 When hot pan de sal arrived 16:50 90s pan de Manila 19:30 An anthropological approach 20:45 Field work: pugon 22:30 "May kilala ka ba?" Do you know anyone? 24:05 Categorizing and identifying breads 25:30 How the project expanded 27:50 Why it ma

EP 26: On The Antiquity of the Ifugao Rice Terraces with Stephen Acabado

Dec 15 2020 77 mins  
Show notes 01:15 The kinds of truths that set you free 05:45 About Stephen 07:20 Products of the Philippine educational system 10:35 Change entails unlearning 11:20 On Beyer's "Waves of Migration" theory 14:15 A need to think critically 15:00 2,000 year dating is not based on any scientific data 18:15 (The perils of) clinging to romanticism 20:05 On the centrality of rice 23:45 Ter

EP 25: Writing the Philippine Food, Cooking and Dining Dictionary with Edgie Polistico

Oct 15 2020
Show notes 01:40 87 entries on adobo 06:25 Growing up in Leyte 07:55 Edgie's high school 10:00 On English instruction and summer vacations 12:40 His first Cebuano-English dictionary 14:50 An "accidental lexicographer" 16:30 Moving to Tacloban 18:50 Starting with source code 20:15 Edgie's digital dictionary, circa 1995 21:25 "It wasn't the time" 22:10 On food and migration patterns

EP 24: On Finding Voices That Speak To You

Aug 30 2020 41 mins  
Show notes 3:30 On a very tumbled feeling 08:30 Seeing myself in a mirror 11:25 Finding voices that speak to you 13:20 Tiffany on stories that bridge a gap 14:55 On representation 16:00 Finding Cora 16:35 Nathalie on starting Pilipinxpages 17:20 Growing up in Vancouver 18:10 Reading Elaine Castillo 22:25 "Do Filipino kids see themselves as superheroes?" 25:20 Restoring voices lost

EP 23: A Food Trip In Iloilo And Cooking School In Antique

Nov 30 2019 57 mins  
01:40 Netong's Batchoy at La Paz Public Market 04:00 The language I'm most myself in 06:15 Pancit Molo at Panadería de Molo 09:25 From Iloilo to Antique 11:00 Visiting Alpas Restaurant and Guesthouse 11:25 Meet Ken and Kim 14:00 Sulig and tisa 15:30 "Only the goats eat it" 17:15 Tonight's dinner menu: green salad, grilled fish, spicy beef stomach, roasted sweet potatoes, grilled e

EP 22: The Coconut Kitchen With Regina Newport

Aug 17 2019 59 mins  
01:40 Why I loved the book 05:00 About Regee 07:50 Going to culinary school at 55 09:45 On becoming an author 15:20 How Culinary Historians of the Philippines (CHOP) began 19:30 A solutions-based approach to storytelling 26:00 Foods we take for granted 28:35 "The coconut figures a lot in our cuisine" 29:30 Regee's turning point 31:15 Finding Dr. Dayrit 32:05 A visit to the coconut