Food Tour: A Culinary Journal

by Claude Tayag

With illustrations and recipes, Claude Tayag is an accomplished painter, sculptor, and a writer about food. The recipes give us a profund clue to the Filipino and how food can set that spirit on fire.

From sisig to durian, from bagnet to Bicol Express to Bacalao a la Vizcaina, Taya seems to know exactly which food trips to slaver over. It rouses memories between food and places and memorable meals galore.

Genres: Food

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Jenina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I mean as a cabalen, this unsurprisingly felt like home

[Matthew Lopez · Rating 4 out of 5]

On the onset, the cover can deceive you as a normal cookbook, but in fact it provides creative essays on Philippine culinary and culture. Claude provides the readers a different perspective on appreciating cuisine as a form of visual art and of human consumption by means of juxtaposing historical facts and personal experiences in various countries by means of his writings and visual drawings.

[Emeelu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Personal essays on food. Extensive local knowledge on delicacies and favorites, better than most Filipino cook books out there.