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elleng

(130,126 posts)
Mon Mar 12, 2018, 09:00 PM Mar 2018

Filipino Food Finds a Place in the American Mainstream.

'In 1883, José Rizal, the future hero and martyr of the Philippine Revolution, was a homesick medical student abroad in Madrid. His longing for bagoong, a paste of seafood salted and left to ferment until it exudes a fathomless funk, grew so great that his worried family in Manila dispatched a jar. But it broke on the ship, releasing its pungent scent and, reportedly, terrifying the passengers.

Today, bagoong and other Filipino foods are finally entering the American mainstream, more than a century after the United States Navy sailed into Manila Bay, sank the Spanish Armada and took control of the archipelago, a restive colony of around 7,100 islands and 180 languages. Americans of Filipino heritage now make up one in five of all Asian-Americans, second only to Chinese in number, and the largest percentage of immigrants serving in the United States military were born in the Philippines.

Other Asian cuisines have been part of the American landscape for decades. But only in recent years have Filipino dishes started gaining recognition outside immigrant communities, at restaurants like Maharlika in New York; Bad Saint in Washington, D.C.; and Lasa in Los Angeles.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/dining/filipino-cooking.html?


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Filipino Food Finds a Place in the American Mainstream. (Original Post) elleng Mar 2018 OP
I have had tons of warm food brought to me for lunch by the kind BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #1
Lucky! elleng Mar 2018 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
1. I have had tons of warm food brought to me for lunch by the kind
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 02:02 AM
Mar 2018

Filipino parents in my first grade classroom over the years. Adobo, lumpia, pancit, etc. I even like balut...fertilized duck or chicken egg/fetus.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/how-to-eat-balut/index.html

elleng

(130,126 posts)
2. Lucky!
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 12:13 PM
Mar 2018

(except maybe for the egg!)

I have a friend of Filipino origin whom I may encourage to cook for me.

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