After putting out five books on Philippine art, Peso Book Foundation presents its first attempt at documenting Philippine cuisine of a past generation. This is no ordinary cookbook. It is bi-lingual (Tagalog with English translation), and preserves a language, expression, and culture that no longer exists.
Peso book is grateful to the Alcatara clan for allowing the publishing of the discovered recipes of their maternal forbear, Aurelia Manalili Rivera Alcantara, who produced a lifetime of memorable cuisine that is one of the finest legacies to come out of Baliuag, Bulacan. Lola Oreng had a culinary reputation that preceded her wherever she went. Everyone seemed to have heard of, or tasted, her cooking- and were looking for more. After her, there are outstanding cooks among Lola Oreng's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, many of whom were in the kitchen by choice at a very age, obviously inheriting the culinary genes of Lola Oreng and her love for cooking
One might wonder how this whole production came about when Lola Oreng never wrote down a single one of her recipes. By some uncanny foresight, the old matriarch had instructed her descendants hands -on to the fourth generation in the private domain of her kitchen, just how to prepare those priceless recipes. Because of this, fine cuisine was passed on.
Fortunately, in their later years when they had the leisure to do it, Lola Oreng's daughters recorded her cooking as they remembered it. We acknowledge the efforts of two women, Lola Oreng's late eldest daughter, Rizalina (Nitang) Alcantara Verde of Novato, California, who had taken the trouble to write out about 300 of Lola Oreng's recipes, and her youngest daughter. Teresita ALcantara Luna of Paranaque, Rizal, who perfected the recipes her sister had written down over a period of three years, in anticipation of eventually printing those labor of love by Lola Oreng's daughters, is what you hold in your hand.
Peso Book Foundation also acknowledge the assistance of two personages whose personal involvement in this project was proof positive of their own love for Lola Oreng and her cookery. Lola Oreng's son in law Atty. Cesar M. Luna Project Director, conceptualized the idea of a cookbook because he missed his mother-in-law's cooking so much and her youngest son, Atty. mario R. Alcantara, who, along with his sister Teresita Luna funded the project from start to finish.
Peo Book's resident author, Jane Stangle and layout artist Paolo Yabao, worked on the production of the bookover a 3 -year period, while artist Raydelmar Sumabad did the charming illustrations that the animate the recipes.
This outstanding cookbook is guaranteed to transform you into a fine cook in the tradition of old days.



 

TX 724.5 P6A42 2005

Alcantara, Aurelia Manalili R.

Pamanang luto ni Lola Oreng=Lola Oreng's culinary heritage/ Aurelia Manalili R. Alcantara. -- Quezon City, Philippines: Peso Book Foundation, 2005.

145 p.
ISBN 971-922-363-4
Cooking, Philippine

2024/ 2146 MPQLdb