Filipino Food Month 2026
Source: Philstar.com
Published on: 2026-04-10 16:54
April is now known as Filipino Food Month (FFM) and though we should be celebrating it everyday, a special month centered on local cuisine helps wake people up from dismissing Filipino food as ordinary food, but looking at local ingredients in a different way. There is a slew of Facebook pages dedicated to the research, formal or informal, on local food ingredients. It has been trending even in special awards coveted for the hospitality industry to celebrate local ingredients, albeit sometimes overdone by not a few cooks or chefs. Edible flowers, for example, now appear in almost every dish and I almost always remove them. At first it is cute and exciting to see pretty flowers on a salad, but not on every salad, every soup, every dish. Is it then a fad or a trend to use flowers? I recently interviewed three food writers for my podcast - Ige Ramos, Felice Sta. Maria and Nancy Reyes Lume...
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