A Taste of the Philippines is now open at Chicago’s French Market, while Boonie Foods pops up in Logan Square
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After 17 years in Lincoln Square, Isla Pilipina — a Filipino food mainstay loved for its addictive lumpia and for becoming a de facto gathering place for the Filipino-American community in Chicago — is closing.
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Here is a collection of my work published at Filipino Kitchen. Filipino Kitchen is a food media and events group that connects Filipinos across the diaspora with our culinary heritage, culture and history. I lead Filipino Kitchen with my collaborator, Natalia Roxas, from 2014 to 2018.
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Joël Robuchon is a bar-raiser, an experience that ruins you forever, if you let it. The dragon you chase, the love who got away. Because, after you've had it, you can't un-know this food, this service and this setting.
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Momos are the Nepali addition to the great Dumpling Pantheon.
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Chicago has a thriving foodie scene and numerous festivals have popped up to meet the feverish demand for fun culinary events: annual stand-bys like the Green City Market Chef's BBQ and Baconfest (a multi-city franchise here, in DC and San Francisco) and many more. Tickets can range from a $5 entrance fee to much more expensive, all-inclusive packages. With new festivals popping up all the time, how can an culinary enthusiast tell the scams from the (many) legit festivals? Here's one Chicago couple's story.
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These gifts - they're called 'pasalubong,' loosely translated to 'souvenir': Something delicious to share from faraway with your welcoming hosts or with friends and family back home.
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It's damn near the kitchen sink of delicious things you can find in the PI.
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Can I ask some fun-loving Filipino or Filipino American parents, in the spirit of tomorrow's April Fools' Day, to please hide a lavender- or pink-dyed balut in their Easter egg hunts today?
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