“A magical, third-culture love letter to Filipino food, replete with soulful and achingly personal stories, along with must-make recipes like Chicken Inasal, Kare Kare, and Ginataang Bilo Bilo.”—Kat Lieu, IACP winner and author of 108 Asian Cookies
Filipino Style brings you bowls of garlicky rice, richly stewed meats, and vegetables simmered in coconut milk, and crisp drinks and cool desserts meant to refresh you from the heat. It’s Filipino comfort food, with 80 recipes for the traditional, the unconventional, and the reimagined.
Rooted in Ian Rivero’s Filipino upbringing in Canada and his parents’ home cooking, these recipes are shaped by the way Ian grew up cooking and eating. Access to certain Filipino ingredients wasn’t always an option. Because of this, Ian and his family learned how to adapt recipes to what was available without losing the flavors that made dishes feel like home. In Filipino Style, Ian offers clear and detailed methods while also encouraging you to create your own swaps and additions based off what’s around. Sprinkled throughout are sidebars and essays that dive into the best way to prepare banana leaves for cooking, the wonders of giving just about any ingredient the adobo treatment, and what types of sawsawans you can prep to serve alongside your meal. Inside, you’ll find:
- Accessible Ingredient Swaps: Find the best substitutions without compromising on flavor—Ian suggests accessible options for hard-to-find calamansi juice and Filipino soy sauce, which is thinner and salter than others.
- Cook (and Eat) Like A Filipino: Try genuine techniques like how to prepare banana leaves, stock your kitchen with the must-have sauces, condiments, and starches, and learn how to compose a balanced meal—is it really complete without a sawsawan?
- 80 Fluid Recipes for Filipino Food: Ian has everything from classic Filipino recipes like Pancit Canton an Lumpiang Shanghai, to reimagined dishes like Dad’s Garlicky Breakfast Rice and Golden Halo Halo, to meals bursting with Filipino-forward flavors like Calamansi Shrimp and Sticky Adobo Brussels Sprouts.
- Immersive & Inspiring Photography: Find yourself on the ground in the Philippines and Canada, the places where Ian pulls his inspiration from—and where you soon will too!
From the rich, peanuty broth of kare kare to the sour-sweet tamarind tang of sinigang, Filipino Style showcases the breadth of Filipino cuisine while also showing you just how easy it is to bring these salty-sweet-umami flavors into your week. So come, kain tayo—let’s eat!
