From Pots to Pages

If you like to eat, cook, bake or merely collect pretty books, here’s why these proudly Filipino-produced coffee-table and cook books should find a sweet spot in your kitchen (or on your table)

Experiences, emotions, and perspectives that are germane to just about everyone will speak to you from the universal themes underpinning these four delightful tomes; flipping through each painstakingly produced page is guaranteed to spark great joy.

Whether you are after displaying a handsome conversation starter on your bookshelf, looking to whip up a nostalgic recipe, testing your baking skills or, hey, even teaching yourself a thing or two about the origins of local dishes and delicacies such as tiyulaitum (lemongrass and burnt coconut beef stew) or sapin-sapin (a varicoloured rice dessert), there’s bound to be something—creation, expression, education—for everybody.

There are two common denominators here; to begin with, there is the undeniable love Filipinos have for food, and, secondly, that these four coffee table and recipe books are all proudly Filipino-produced. Here’s a brief synopsis of these labours of love, Baking atRé pub li que, KainNa!, A Piece ofCake, and AlsoFilipino: 75Regional Dishes I Never Had Growing Up, all published in 2019.