Co-authored by food writer Flavel Monteiro and ABS-CBN director and writer Keesa Ocampo, “Cuisinero” features recipes from two leading Filipino chefs of the Gulf region, John Buenaventura and Nouel Omamalin. (Full disclosure: I worked with Keesa on the planning committee for the Filipino Food Movement’s Savor Filipino Summit.) The book opens with no less than half a dozen forewords by chefs, food writers and diplomats and closes with afterwords from Mona Lisa Yuchengco (founder and publisher of Positively Filipino) and Sonia Delen (president of the Filipino Food Movement), all musing on the effects of the pandemic on everyone from five-star restaurateurs in Dubai to children in Davao.

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