Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture

What's cooking? "The old and the new. The provincial and the pop. The slow and the fast. The past, the present, the future. That's what cooking in Philippine cuisine. Which means that as the most popular (people-created, people-processed and people-consumed) segment of popular culture, it is dynamic and changing, living, and lively." Writing about Food. "When one describes food, one does not use words alone, but the readers' remembering as well -- of past pleasures, savored sensations. One writes on and with the readers' palates, alluding to food tasted as children, drawing on their reservoirs of pleasure. In effect, one draws on all the culture that shaped oneself and one's readers."