PH Embassy Teams Up With Chef Margarita Fores To Spotlight Filipino Cuisine in Austria
Chef Margarita Fores demonstrating the secrets of cooking chicken and pork adobo (photo from Vienna PE)
VIENNA 24 October 2023 - The Philippine Embassy in Vienna organized an exclusive cooking masterclass with Chef Margarita Fores at Wrenkh Restaurant and Cooking Salon in Vienna, Austria on 16 October 2023. The masterclass is part of the Embassy’s ongoing efforts to promote Filipino cuisine and ingredients in Austria, Croatia, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia.
Chef Fores gave a broad overview of the origins of Philippine culinary traditions, from the country’s archipelagic nature to the Spanish, Malay, and Chinese influences that shaped the way Fillipinos cook and eat. She described how the Filipino palate evolved due to these unique influences into a true “fusion” cuisine.
The masterclass participants included culinary professionals, restaurant owners, members of the gastronomy press, and social media influencers. The masterclass menu included classic Filipino favorites such as chicken and pork adobo with steamed white rice, sustainable tuna kinilaw with chili peppers, tuba vinegar, and adlai crackers, and seafood sinigang batwan.
Midway into her cooking demonstration, Chef Fores introduced the special ingredients used for the class, particularly the fresh MSC-certified yellowfin tuna imported directly from the Philippines, the tuba vinegar made from coconut, the adlai variety of barley, asin tibuok or sea salt filtered through charred coconut husk, and the batwan, a fruit found in central Philippines and commonly used as a souring agent. Of these items, the asin tibuok and the fresh tuna piqued the participants’ interests the most. END.
Chef Margarita Fores explaining the process of making asin tibuok (sea salt filtered through charred coconut husk). (photo from Vienna PE)
The participants making tuna kinalaw with chili peppers, tuba vinegar, and adlai crackers. (photo from Vienna PE)
Chef Margarita Fores with her team and some of the participants of the cooking class. (photo from VIenna PE)
For more information, visit https://www.viennape.dfa.gov.ph, https://www.philippine-embassy.at or https://www.facebook.com/PHinAustria/, https://www.twitter.com/PHLinAustria or https://www.instagram.com/phinaustria/