One has this stereotype of healthy food lacking in savory taste, bordering on blah. Sometimes, one thinks of it as close to pagkaing darak (or rice bran fed to poultry, cows and pigs)—no offense meant to one’s friends who have chosen to eat strictly plant- or fruit-based food. One’s palate was honed by a mother...
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Lessons on the beloved potato (or how it fits quite nicely in Filipino cuisine)
Think of a few of your typical savory Filipino dishes—adobo, menudo, kaldereta, nilaga, maybe even kare-kare or sinigang. You can easily imagine all of them incorporating that ubiquitous and beloved brown-skinned vegetable. “I don’t think you will grow up or get to this age in the Philippines without having potatoes, because we love our potatoes,” Reji Retugal, Philippine representative of...