Goodness. There are no heavy news about Filipino food this week. As much as I want to indulge every lifestyle section in every news spread in the world telling this Filipino opened that Filipino restaurant, I digress. But not so much though. This just tells us that Filipino food is opening its doors everywhere in the world. Filipino food and the people behind it are being acknowledged. Which leads me to our first article this week.
Adobo Roots
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Yes and yes and yes. This is a good conversation topic along …

This is the first time I am doing this here in our lovely website and I am hoping it wouldn’t be the last time.
A few months ago, I introduced Adobo in the office during one of the many Monday lunches. I also introduced Paella to them but much to my surprise not a lot of them consider seafood as part of their diet but those who did had more than 2 helpings. And recently I introduced Afritada and to my delight and theirs, we all enjoyed the Afritada pretty well. …

 
For the past few weeks I have been watching out for Philippine rice news with my mouth full. This time it has gotten way out of hand.
Philippines to launch I-rice
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This title of the article reminds me of the movie Irobot starring Will Smith. So what is this Irice? Irice is a program by the Philippine government that will utilize robots that look like humans to “man” rice farms. So what do you think? The future is now Jose!
I’m just kidding. Irice is iron fortified rice. They said that …

Philippine Rice Industry in peril
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Last week in Filipino Food News we featured an effort to increase the production of soybeans in the Philippines to which I replied, why would they focus all their attention and energy on producing more rice and make the Philippines be self-sufficient instead of joining the entire world in the race to grab sacks of rice from rice-producing countries? And this report? Has the Banaue rice terraces collapsed? That’s mountains and mountains of land dedicated to producing rice. You will probably hear from a …

Let’s Go Soybean
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I remember during elementary school days… they would usually feed us with green peas and this sort of malt or cereal called Bulgor/Bolgur/Bulgur, I can’t remember. It was once a government program along with the Go, Grow and Glow campaign. Anybody remember that? The article is fully packed with information about Soy Beans I don’t even know where to start. I wanted to discuss it further but I have this nagging thought that says, “what about rice?” Should we prioritize our rice process, send it to rehab first …