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How Filipino food history nurtures my mixed-race identity

| Food, Myth | Lore | History

One of my favourite things about Filipino food is all of the outside influences made undeniably Filipino in their interpretation.⁠ I like to use Filipino food in my writing, and it’s become a key part of my mixed-race identity too. The Philippines is made up of many different cultures and languages, and this isn’t meant as a definitive definition of Filipino cuisine. I just wanted to celebrate it. As a mixed-race person, it reminds me […]

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The Quiet is Loud & old Filipino restaurants

| Food, Myth | Lore | History, The Quiet is Loud

Firstly: Happy Filipino Heritage Month! 🇵🇭 There’s an old-school style of Filipino restaurant called “turo-turo1.” The name is an example of classic Filipino word reduplicating, and stems from the word for pointing at something. They’re often located in strip malls, and the typical feature is their cafeteria-style presentation, all food laid out in warming trays that you point at and someone dishes up for you. They’re also known as “carinderias,” and started out as a

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A Mrs Beeton Recipe: Nut! Sandwiches!

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Say hi to the grossest historical recipe I’ve ever made! A little while ago, I was talking to a friend about the “Vegetarian Cookery” section of my c.1938 copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management. I told them that I was pleasantly surprised at some of these recipes.⁠ Then I saw the recipe for “Nut Sandwiches.”⁠ Nut Sandwiches – from Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management Ingredients – Walnuts finely chopped, Mayonnaise sauce (p. 211), cayenne

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A Mrs Beeton Recipe: Celery Croquettes

| Food, Myth | Lore | History, Reading

Recently I thought it might be a fun quarantine project to revisit my copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management, c.1938, and make another historical recipe from the book. I narrowed it down to two that I thought would be fairly easy and interesting, and asked my Instagram followers to choose which one I should make – celery croquettes won out! This book is one of my prized possessions. I’ve made a few recipes from Mrs

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A Mrs Beeton recipe: Tomatoes, Stuffed, With Mushrooms

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Last year, I found a copy of Mrs Beeton’s Household Management in a secondhand book store, and snapped it up eagerly. It isn’t obvious when it was printed. A previous owner wrote her name and the year 1944, but certain things made me believe this was already a few years old when she got it – for instance, references to “The War,” and nothing written about rationing. Based on dates I found in the “Legal Memoranda” section

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