Congrats to Juliette Kaplan, the winner of the Bumbershoot “Food for Thought” writing contest. Her poem below deals with food and identity and fitting in.
Tupperware
I was the kid
who brought her lunch
in sticky
leaky
Tupperware.
Tupperware was not cool.
When people asked me,
“Where are your parents from”
Like a well-rehearsed robot, I would recite,
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Food for Thought writing contest winner
Posted in Filipino food, Food and race, tagged adobo, Bumbershoot, Filipino food, Food for Thought Writing Contest, Juliette Kaplan, Poem, School lunch, Tupperware, Winner on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A touching lumpia story
Posted in Filipino food, tagged Lumpia on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an e-mail forward that I got from my colleague Gene who is Filipino like me.
This is for all the Filipinos out there, and those who are lucky enough to have Filipino friends, those who have Filipino spouses and those who have Filipino next door neighbors. The story goes like this…
The elderly [...]
Of pizza and pancit
Posted in Filipino food, Food and race, Savory on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The birthdays of my youth were celebrated with huge parties. My parents would invite entire families, not just kids. The house would be packed with people, and our dining room table would groan from the weight of the many dishes my mom and dad prepared and other food that guests would bring. The Filipino classics [...]
9 food resolutions for 2009
Posted in Filipino food, Food resolutions 2009, Ice cream, Savory, Sweet, tagged clean and cook a whole fish, clean out cupboards, clean out freezer, cranberry sauce, cut a whole chicken into pieces, Filipino food, gratin, homemade ice cream, kitchen gadgets, mandolin, potato chips on January 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
1. Cook a Filipino meal at least once a month.
My son just turned a year old, and I want to start introducing him to a key part of his heritage. But let’s be honest–this resolution is mostly for me. I miss Filipino food! I recently realized that I now only eat Filipino dishes at [...]
Is Filipino food embarrassing?
Posted in Essays, Filipino food, Food and race, Reviews, Savory, Sweet, tagged Chowhound, Filipino food, Filipino restaurants, fish escabeche, halo halo, Kawali Grill, pork inihaw, Seattle, silog, ube ice cream on August 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is the question “side dish” raised on Chowhound’s Pacific Northwest board in 2002.
The post itself wasn’t very illuminating. The writer claimed that there’s a dearth of Filipino restaurants in Seattle because “Filipinos are the ultimate US wannabees” who are “more likely to open a Jewish deli or burger stand than a Filipino restaurant.” [...]
Better than pump cheese (well, maybe it’s a tie)
Posted in Filipino food, Reviews, Savory, tagged Filipino food, Gas station, kaldereta on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We were at a gas station in the Georgetown area of Seattle, which is the industrial area by Boeing Field. It was around lunchtime, and I needed a snack. My husband mentioned that when he had gone in to pay for gas, he had seen “something interesting made with chicken” in the quickie mart’s hot [...]
My chocolate crossaint can beat up your chocolate croissant
Posted in Filipino food, Reviews, So right, Sweet, tagged chocolate, croissant, Delite Bakery, pastries on March 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Before I got married, I lived in an apartment building located next to Delite Bakery. When I walked out each morning to catch the bus to work, I was enveloped in the sweet smell of donuts and cakes. How I did not gain 50 pounds living by that place, I do not know.
Delite specializes [...]
