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The Adobo Road
With a distinct lack of Filipino restaurants to be found, the road to tasty Filipino food begins and ends at home. In The Adobo Road Cookbook, Marvin Gapultos brings the exotic-yet easy to make-flavors of the Philippines into your home with this beautiful Filipino Cookbook.
Fruits of the Philippines
Generally edible without cooking and often used as dessert or squeezed into juice or cooked into sweets, each fruit is described through its taste, the way it is eaten, and how it figures in culture (in folklore, in belief; its medicinal uses, if any).
The Body Papers
At school, Grace Talusan confronts racism as one of the few kids with a brown face. At home, her grandfather's nightly visits to her room leave her terrified. She builds a protective wall of silence that maps onto the larger silence practiced by her Catholic Filipino family.
The Philippine Cookbook
Here is the cookbook that presents to America the cooking of the Philippines, an extraordinary classic cuisine adapted to the specific requirements of the U.S. kitchens.
The Land of Forgotten Girls
In this acclaimed novel from Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, two sisters from the Philippines, abandoned by their father and living in impoverished circumstances in Louisiana, fight to make their lives better.
Names above Houses
In Names above Houses, Oliver de la Pazuses both prose and verse poems to create the magical realm of Fidelito Recto--a boy who wants to fly--and his family of Filipino immigrants.
I Am a Filipino
Named a New York Times Best Cookbook of Fall 2018 Filipino food is having its moment. Sour, sweet, funky, fatty, bright, rich, tangy, bold—no wonder adventurous eaters consider Filipino food the next big thing!
Quintessential Filipino Cooking
Experience classic and authentic recipes from the Philippines with Quintessential Filipino Cooking. This expansive collection of over 75 recipes highlights the traditions and flavors of Filipino cooking!
A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters
A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters explores the many forms of mutual aid and possibility that appear in moments of state failure. It maps long and complicated equations, taking us from Katrina to the prisoners at Riker's Island as they await Hurricane Sandy.
baking at republique
A stunning instructional from beloved Los Angeles baker Margarita Manzke, who teaches the key doughs, batters, recipes, and clever ways for creating wow-factor and bakery-quality results at home.
I Was Their American Dream
I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children.
Taste of Control
Changing the food of the Philippines was part of a war on culture led by Americans as they attempted to shape the islands into a reflection of their home country. Taste of Control tells what happened when American colonizers began to influence what Filipinos ate, how they cooked, and how they perceived their national cuisine.
Big Little Man
Alex Tizon’s Big Little Man is a memoir and deep dive on Tizon’s journey of grappling with what it means to be an Asian man in America.
Legions of Boom
Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture writer and scholar Oliver Wang chronicles this remarkable scene that eventually became the cradle for turntablism.
Dark Blue Suit
We encounter the inevitable aging and passing of the Manong generation, but we sense as well the arrival of its vision. Babies are born. The migrant fisheries worker gets a nine-to-five job, and his children go to college.
On the Clock
ON THE CLOCK is a bracing, revealing tour through realms of the low-wage economy that remain invisible to too many Americans. Emily Guendelsberger is a compelling guide into this world, recounting her experiences in prose that is both barbed and appealing.
Empire of Care
Working conditions for Fil-Ams: In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines.