Claude Tayag at The Maya Kitchen today
MANILA, Philippines - “From a Kapampangan Palate to an Artist’s Palette: An Update on 4 Pampango Dishes,” is the title of Claude Tayag’s cooking demonstration for The Maya Kitchen’s Elite Culinary Series today, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The well-known artist, author, STAR columnist and chef will demonstrate green papaya lumpiang sariwa, a warm salad. Sisig terrine, the iconic Pampango sizzling sisig goes back to its roots. The crunchy boiled pig’s ear is served cold, with its symphony of sour, salty, sweet, tangy and spicy flavors. Bringhe, a Pampango/Bulakeño fiesta rice dish (aka Valenciana in Iloilo). Is it a paella or risotto? Chef Claude calls it a rice pizza. Pistu, a Pampango special occasion morning dish, an over-the-top giniling na baboy/picadillo.
Tayag has been an advocate of Filipino cuisine for most of his adult life. His bestselling books include Food Tour, a collection of his food and travel essays from his column in the STAR, and Linamnam: Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines, which he co-authored with his wife Mary Ann Quioc Tayag. Both won the Best Philippine Culinary Travel Guide in the Madrid-based Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is also a co-author and the food stylist of the seminal cookbook Kulinary: A Guidebook to Philippine Cuisine.
Tayag is one of those rare breed of “food missionaries.” Together with his wife, they run the by-reservation-only Bale Dutung Restaurant in Angeles City, Pampanga, serving sumptuous traditional Pampango spread, and more recently opened Downtown 1956 Café, at the Quad in Nepo Center in the same city, serving Tayag’s Filipino comfort foods. They have hosted meals for such international luminaries like Anthony Bourdain (author, TV host), Tom Parker Bowles (food editor, Esquire UK), Simon Majumbar (author of Eat My Globe), Australian chef/TV host Peter Kurovita and many other local and foreign celebrities.
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