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Summary: Excellent introduction to Filipino cuisine, history
Review: As a first generation Filipino, I have collected several cookbooks on Filipino cuisine and this by far is the best, in the format, recipes and background info on origination and regional histories. Very thorough, informative. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Great Introduction to Filipino Cuisine!
Review: As a first generation Filipino-Canadian, this book provided me with a great education on the preparation of traditional dishes, and their origination. Not only can one easily make authentic Filipino meals, but also understand how many cultural influences shaped what is known as modern Filipino food. It's the perfect introductory cookbook for almost all Filipino fare.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Easy to follow! Tastes just like Grandma's cooking! I grew up in California and usually ate Filipino food but never could make it the "way it's supposed to be" but thanks to this book, my cooking now tastes the way it should be!
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Summary: Just like my Mom's cooking. Yeah!
Review: Great book. Easy to follow. Found all of the recipes that my Mom used to make and had the same great taste. Look forward to cooking and baking Philippine food everyday.
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Summary: The best recipebook on Philippine cuisine yet
Review: Here in the US, Philippine cuisine is most often summarized by the following: lumpiang shanghai, lechon (manok), pork barbeque, pancit, sinigang and adobo. If you can cook the above, consider yourself an experienced Pinoy chef; this book, fortunately, blows this notion out of the water.The book reveals a cuisine that is the amalgamation of history and geography; it features a multipage discussion on how Filipino cuisine can be subdivided into regional specialties, each with its own historical influences; it provides a grouping of dishes by genre (how many Filipino cookbooks describe the various meat and seafood ginataan variations while smartly leaving the dessert ginataan for later?); it compares and contrasts dishes with similar ones from other parts of the Philippines. From reading the book, one gets a glimpse of just how diverse Filipino cooking really is, each major region in the archipelago of 7100 islands, large and small, developing a unique taste that warrants its own recipe book. Accurate/appropriate English translations for many of the recipe names help make the recipes seem less exotic and unapproachable while the clear instructions guide the novice through even some of the more intricate dishes.
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Summary: HOW TO IMPRESS THE INLAWS
Review: I AM MARRIED INTO A CAUCASIAN FAMILY WITH GOOD APPETITES-ESPECIALLY MY HUSBAND. SADLY, MY MOTHER NEVER TAUGHT ME THE ART OF FILIPINO COOKING (AS SO COMMONLY DONE), BUT I FOUND MY SALVATION IN THIS VERY BOOK.
IT GIVES A BRIEF HISTORY ON THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PHILLIPPINES AND THE DIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE, HOW A CERTAIN DISH CAN VARY FROM REGION TO REGION AND THE DIFFERENT TASTES INVOVLED TO TEMPT YOUR PALATE.
ASIAN COOKING IS AT IT'S BEST AND GELLE KNOWS HIS STUFF! IF YOU NEVER COOKED FILIPINO STYLE BEFORE AND ARE LOOKING FOR A CHANGE IN YOUR MONOTONOUS COOKING,OR YOU ARE FILIPINO AND FELL INTO MY CATAGORY OF "COOKING NEGLECT" TRY THIS BOOK OUT. THE STEPS ARE EASY TO READ AND FOLLOW. INGREDIENTS ARE EASILY ATTAINABLE MAKING COOKING A JOY THROUGH EXPERIMENTING AND INDIVIDUALITY.
THIS IS "THE" BIBLE OF FILIPINO COOKING.
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Summary: Loaded with inaccuracies
Review: I bought this book as a gift for my sister. We are both filipinas raised in the US and are deeply fond of our ethnic cuisine. As such, we were excited to try recipes in the book. We tried the chicken siopao recipe first. It was a disaster. The dough did not rise despite the fresh yeast. After the addition of the flour the dough was hard and unworkable. The seasonings for the chicken were too conservative. The filling should be slightly sweet. We had to doctor it up quite a bit. The Kutsinta recipe was a complete failure. It turned out thick and cakey rather than transulcent and gelatinous. It was also much too sweet. I would not recommend this book to any native filipino. If you are accustomed to the taste of the filipino cuisine, you will appreciate the deficiencies in the book.
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Summary: excellent!
Review: i grew up in the philippines and presently lives in the USA. unfortunately, i never took time to learn how to cook -- until i moved where nobody else can cook for me. i tried so many cookbooks but to my dismay, they never tasted the way i hoped they would be. i bumped into this book and was so amazed at how easy it was to cook while getting the results i wanted. i strongly recommend this to anyone who would like to learn how to cook filipino dishes -- or simply just to learn how to cook.
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Summary: excellent!
Review: i grew up in the philippines and presently lives in the USA. unfortunately, i never took time to learn how to cook -- until i moved where nobody else can cook for me. i tried so many cookbooks but to my dismay, they never tasted the way i hoped they would be. i bumped into this book and was so amazed at how easy it was to cook while getting the results i wanted. i strongly recommend this to anyone who would like to learn how to cook filipino dishes -- or simply just to learn how to cook.
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Summary: Very good food
Review: I have really enjoyed having this cookbook and can honestly say that some of the best food I've ever eaten has come from these recipes. My girlfriend tells me that these recipes are like her mothers. The only exception found so far being that her mother prefers not to add chicken livers to her Pork And Chicken Adobo. My girlfriends mother lives in Iloilo province, Philippines.
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