Exploring Filipino Kitchens

Dec 29 2024 30 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 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

EP 21: The New Filipino Kitchen in Toronto

Jul 15 2019 45 mins  
01:25 What place do my stories have? 05:30 "Every Sunset" 10:00 What The New Filipino Kitchen has to offer 11:05 Meet the panel 12:30 What does your Filipino kitchen look like? 13:25 Gelaine and heritage 15:45 Dolly and merienda 16:30 Dolly's favourite dishes 17:55 Diverse patrons 18:40 The power of referral 19:05 How Diona brought Filipino street food to downtown Toronto 20:10 Def