In Filipino households, the concept of a recipe book can be somewhat alien. We don’t often encounter home cooks who religiously scribble recipes down in notebooks or loose sheets of paper, passing them down to the next generations of cooks. Rather, what happens in Filipino households is recipes are learned not from books, but from the cooks themselves, from watching others in the kitchen and helping out, learning to approximate measurements and season things to taste.
Still, written recipes are extremely valuable when it comes to trying to learn new things, and it’s for this reason that we have hundreds of sources for Filipino recipes, both in traditional print media and more contemporary sources.[…]
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