More on Adobo: Are We Hungry Yet?

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Nothing shouts Filipino food louder than adobo. And nobody has researched, collected stories and written about adobo more than the chef/author/artist Claude Tayag.

In his seminal 2022 book The Ultimate Filipino Adobo: Stories through the Ages, Claude begins: "Mention the word 'adobo' to any Filipino, wherever he may find himself in the world, his mouth will start to salivate for that taste of home. It will titillate his palate like a symphony of subtle sour, salty, garlicky, and peppery linamnam, or yummy flavors like no other. Eaten with hot, steaming rice, sinangag (garlic fried rice), pandesal or even baguette or ciabatta, nothing will beat this combination any time of the day or night. Just a sniff of this aromatic, comforting dish wafting in the air will bring him to his childhood back home. It is the link that connects generations through food like an unbroken chain."

Claude's second book, The Ultimate Filipino Adobo: Stories + Recipes from the Heart, Second Edition comes out next month. With more than 30 new adobo stories, testimonials from non-Filipino celebrities, recipe ideas and even a music sheet for "Adobo ni Inang," a song composed by Nonoy Gallardo and sang by Celeste Legaspi, this new volume is both food for the soul and the heart.  As author/food writer Elizabeth Ann Quirino writes this week in her review of the book, "And like the adobo your mother cooks, the stories’ flavors mellow in time, the tart sourness of descriptions turn smooth, and if you close your eyes in reverie, the garlic aromas stay indelible in your thoughts."

Are you hungry yet?

Stories This Week

Adobo’s Never-Ending Story by Elizabeth Ann Quirino

Fil-Ams Among The Remarkable And Famous, Part 56 by Mona Lisa Yuchengco

Kumander Sisa – Hukbalahap Anti-Japanese Guerrillas’ Top Woman Leader In WWII by Cecilia I. Gaerlan

Impossible Things by Ian Layugan

Read Agains: 

Remembering Nora Daza, the Philippines' first celebrity chef  by Noel Anonuevo: https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/remembering-nora-daza-1929-2013

An Intro to Ilocano Cuisine by Micky Fenix
https://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/soup-tales-and-big-breakfasts

[Video of the Week] At Seattle's historic Pike Place Market, she's the queen. Mama Lina is everyone's inspiration, savior and Mother Earth figure. A badass Filipina lola with a heart of gold.  Mama Lina

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