A La Carte: Food & Fiction

Edited by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard and Marily Orosa

Anvil, 2007, hardcover, 208 pages, ISBN 9712704599

Winner of 2008 Gourmand Award as the Best Food Literature Book from the

Philippines.

Avail­able from PALH

Feast of Philippine Food Stories!

Here are 25 won­der­ful food-relat­ed sto­ries! Each sto­ry is intro­duced by a relat­ed Fil­ipino recipe; the sto­ries are cat­e­go­rized like a cook­book: Breads, Appe­tiz­ers, Sal­ads; Soup, Rice, Main Dish­es, and Dessert.

Praise

“A menu of sto­ries to suit your every crav­ing! That’s A La Carte: Food & Fic­tion. This book fills a hunger in Philip­pine lit­er­a­ture for fan­ta­sy, hyper-real­i­ty, romance, mys­tery … but with a good mea­sure of culi­nary fla­vor­ing mixed in.” (Felice Pru­dente Sta. Maria, culi­nary her­itage advo­cate and writer)

“Here is a book guar­an­teed to sat­is­fy even the most dis­crim­i­nat­ing taste, but also to make read­ers hun­gry for more sto­ries, char­ac­ters, insights, and recipes. Fact, fic­tion, fan­ta­sy, and food mix in a feast for the mind, the heart, the palate, and the soul. There are many well-known writ­ers in the anthol­o­gy, but it is not so much who writes as what is writ­ten that makes this book a must-read, just as it is not so much the chef or the cook that makes a recipe to die for, but the dish itself. Enjoy the 25-course ban­quet.”  (Isagani R. Cruz for The Philip­pine Star)

“Books on food are quite pop­u­lar these days and we are glad that recent pub­li­ca­tions have gone beyond mere recipes to evoke what Proust called a ‘remem­brance of things past.’” (Ambeth R. Ocam­po, Chair­man, Nation­al Com­mis­sion for Cul­ture and the Arts; Chair­man, Nation­al His­tor­i­cal Insti­tute)

 

Excerpt

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2018/01/short-story-by-cecilia-brainard-about.html

Book Review

Anna Bar­bara L. Loren­zo for Busi­ness World Week­ender, March 2007