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BusinessWorld May 6, 2021 | 12:05 am By (Second Prize winner of the 2020 Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award) OF THE FLAVORS that the human tongue can detect â salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and savory ( umami), bitter is the least acceptable and provokes the most aversion. From an evolutionary perspective, rightly so, as many bitter substances are toxic, and humans are programmed to avoid them. And yet strangely, bitterness characterizes the well-loved dishes of regional cuisines: Pinapaitan (soup of beef or goat innards), Kilawen (raw or half-cooked beef or goat in vinegar), and Kappukan (boiled innards of goat with vinegar) of the Ilocos, and Kinigtot (a stew of goat meat and innards simmered in spices and bile juice) and
05 May 2021 / 13:16 H. Usually it’s the white chefs who insult Asian food due to their lack of knowledge and exposure to good Asian food. Imagine the uproar when a Filipino-Norwegian restaurateur dissed Filipino food on national television! During a live segment on the TV show 4-stjerners middag, Jonathan Romano, a sushi chef and MasterChef Norway judge, said Filipino is “very bad.” “It’s very bad food. In the eyes of a chef, there is no food art in my eyes, unfortunately. Lots of deep-fried, lots of fried-to-death stuff like casserole dishes if you can put it that way,” he said.
BusinessWorld April 29, 2021 | 12:02 am Kaye Leah Cacho-Sitchon won first prize for her essay Sinanglaw for Breakfast. Second and third prizes went to Jeanne Rebollido Jacob-Ashkenazi for Bile. More Than Just an Unlikely Condiment and Welcoming the Goat to Our Tables, respectively. There were three honorable mention awardees. Wilson Lee Flores wrote about his mother in A Literature Teacher’s ‘Magical’ Kitchenette. Rosy Mina won for Are You What You Eat? and Shulamite Maiden Pormentira won for The Bitter, the Better. The DGF Award is now in its 19 th year. Named after the late dean of food writers, Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, it was founded to encourage writers to contribute to Philippine food literature. The winning essays of the first 15 years have been published in two books —