PH Consulate General in Vancouver Launches Filipino Kitchen Cookbook
VANCOUVER 15 January 2019 — The Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver hosted the first book launch event of “The New Filipino Kitchen: Stories and Recipes from Around the Globe” at the Herbs and Spices Café on 03 December 2018.
It was attended by 80 Filipinos and Filipino-Canadians, members of the Filipino-Canadian media and food bloggers, as well as the Indonesian Consul General Consul Nina Kurnia Widhi and Malaysian Consul General Shamsul Nizam Bin Shamsuddin and a representative from the Mexican Consulate General.
The book is an anthology of 30 personal stories and recipes from chefs, home cooks, and writers from the Filipino diaspora. Brian Mcginn, Emmy-nominated director and executive producer of Netflix “Chef’s Table,” has described the book as “an engrossing, page-turner of a cookbook.”
The “New Filipino Kitchen” won the Sunshot Prose Finalist Prize 2017 before it was even published. Shortly upon its release on Amazon on 18 September 2018, the book became an instant bestseller, and has already appeared on several lists of highly anticipated cookbooks for the fall.
Additionally, the book has earned the trifecta of reviews, having been reviewed positively by three industry journals: Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The book was also cited as one of San Francisco Chronicle‘s favorite cookbooks of 2018.
Jacqueline Chio-Lauri, the book’s editor and contributing author, has more than eight years of experience in the food industry. Her writing has been published in anthologies and compilations such as “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Inner Strength and Tales of our Lives: Fork in the Road.”
Ms. Chio-Lauri writing also appears on global media sites such as the Huffington Post and Epicurious. She founded the website “My Food Beginnings” to fire up an appetite for Filipino food worldwide. END
For more information, visit www.vancouverpcg.dfa.gov.ph/ www.vancouverpcg.org or https://www.facebook.com/PHinVancouver
Ambassador to Canada Petronila P. Garcia (rightmost) and Consul General in Vancouver Maria Andrelita Austria (center) pose with the author of “The New Filipino Kitchen” Jacqueline Chio-Lauri (third from right). (Vancouver PCG photo)
Herbs and Spices Café (HSC) owner Matte Laurel (standing, rightmost) explains the preparation of chicken adobo using a recipe from the cookbook, by HSC Chefs, Charlie and Nelia Lopez (center). The HSC is a Filipino fusion restaurant established in May 2017 by a family of Filipino-Canadian women who envisaged promoting Filipino cuisine to the Vancouver community. (Vancouver PCG photo)
Author Jacqueline Chio-Lauri signs her book for the guests. (Vancouver PCG photo)