February 22, 2008
Three Pinoy Books.
1. As my current employer would say, Whoo hoo! Dawn Mabalon's book for Arcadia Publishing, Filipinos in Stockton, is available for ordering on Amazon.com, with a book launching on February 24. But all proceeds go to the Stockton chapter of the Filipino American National Historical Society and the Little Manila Foundation if you get it at the Stockton launch. (I'm sure there will be more California signings on the way!)
2. So is Carina Montoya's Filipinos in Hollywood. The photos alone should be great.
3. Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan's Memories of Philippine Kitchens has been out a while, but I only discovered it a couple of weeks ago at Barb and Oscar's. The photographs by Neal Oshima are gorgeous.
Besa and Dorotan are the folks behind the fantastic Cendrillon in SoHo, a restaurant I was lucky to visit twice -- the second time, hobnobbing with the luminaries from Vestiges of War. The dozen of us walked from NYU to Mercer & Broome and happened to be walking behind this guy for a few blocks, and who ended up going to the same restaurant as well. (Apparently he fell in love with Philippine cuisine when he filmed this and this -- the latter film, shot in my hometown, during my high school graduation weekend. Some old high school classmates are still tickled by the fact that a 23-year old Johnny Depp was wandering around our little town in the boondocks before he was Johnny Depp.)
Posted by the wily filipino at February 22, 2008 02:04 PM