Kain Na! An Illustrated Guide to Philippine Food

by Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, Bryan Koh, Mariel Ylagan Garcia (Illustrator)

An illustrated introductory guide to Philippine cuisine.

Genres: Food

209 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2019

About the author

Felice Prudente Sta. Maria is an internationally awarded cultural heritage advocate, food historian, and non-fiction author known for her pioneering work on the history of Filipino cuisine. For over five decades, she has researched the nation's colonial food history, utilizing sources dating from the Age of Exploration to the early years of the Philippine Republic.

Reviews

[Jeffrey Ning · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not only you learn dishes, you also learn culture and semantic of cooking in Philippines. Contents are good except the choice of illustration over photographs of actual dishes, ingredients, and supplies.

[Anson · Rating 3 out of 5]

As an illustrated guide, this book is gorgeous. The water color rendition of Filipino food by Mariel Ylagan Garcia are just wonderful. But in terms of information on Filipino food, you maybe better off searching elsewhere. I would recommend another work by Felice Prudente Sta. Maria and that is "What kids should know about Filipino Food".

In terms of dishes included in the book, I am puzzled as to why there is a glaring omission of Lumpia Shanghai and lumpiang hubad. While I applaud that it included dishes from different provinces across the country such as Tiyula Itum (a Tausug beef stew), it was strange that they would not include a very popular Filipino dish. To their credit though they did include Lumpiang ubod.