The New Filipino Kitchen

Stories and Recipes from around the Globe

We’ve been keeping rather quiet about this, but over the past couple of years we have been involved in this wonderful project to give birth to a new Filipino cook book, one that not only gives recipes, but also tells the very personal stories that we so often attach to the food we love to cook.

For the Filipino diaspora, memories of home are very often built and maintained through the medium of food; and yet, food is also a way in which we adapt to our new homes and environments, as we use different ingredients and take on new techniques and ideas to recreate the food that we cherish. And so we talk about how an early lesson in making mum’s much-loved adobo sparked Mike’s culinary journey that has seen the creation of arandobo (adobo arancini) for the supper club, whilst Mark’s relationship with ube ice cream over the years has mirrored the way he has related to his Filipino heritage.

It’s hard to think that we are finally at this point, some two years after Jacqueline Chio-Lauri asked us if we’d be interested in contributing recipes, alongside a number of inspiring Filipino chefs and cooks from across the world – but we are here, with our names in a book, and our recipes available for the world to see!

It is available for order now from Amazon, and of course we’d be absolutely chuffed if you were to check it out, not because we love the sound of cash registers dinging, but because we really do think this book goes the extra mile in demonstrating that food is more than just what we eat.

“While food fills the stomach, it’s the stories that nourish the soul. This book is spot-on”

Claude Tayag, Filipino artist, restauranteur and food critic