Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream
Alvin Cailan, with Alexandra Cuerdo (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
It’s a collection of fat-, sugar-, and carb-filled recipes that one should not eat in a single sitting, even if you start with, say, fried lumpia filled with pork and shrimp, before moving on to patis fried chicken, and ending with a bowl of rice drenched in chocolate ganache and condensed milk. But mostly it’s a book of assimilation. As Cailan writes, “It’s the story of not being Filipino enough to be Filipino, and not being American enough to be American.” —Mark Rotella, senior editor
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