...increasingly where ever our hearts are" by anthony bourdain...very nice line :) and he said he had tasted the best pig ever in the philippines and the people are so "ridiculously nice"... just watched the entire episode and it is not really that far behind compared to the different places that he went to in his program.augusto...a fan of his from new york had convinced him to pay a visit to the philippines after by-passing it for the more popular asian neighbors of ours. he had this contest where fans of his show had sent a video entry to convince him to go and taste their country's food...saudi arabia won the first place and augusto came next, the second, laughs.
well, really, the philippine episode is a lot more stylish than andrew zimmern's bizarre food episode in the philippines, i think. although, andrew's is much more natural. this man even went to palawan and had eaten live worms freshly plucked from those dead rotten woods. yuck! and gross. but this man also swallowed a live beating heart of some creature in his japan's episode, that's bad enough, laughs. oh well. but going back to "tony" yes, that's anthony bourdain's nickname :)...his filipino participants did a superb job in showing the food of our country. it's the truth that there is no loud boom out there in the world with regards to the identity of our very own filipino cuisine. maybe bec. ours are somewhat a compilation or a mixture of the different cultures that came into our shores to invade and to colonize us. ours was lost in that process. it's hard to tell for it's in the mix of either chinese, malay, spanish or what have you, laughs. although one thing is for certain, filipino food in any form comes first in my book. of course and yes i am not biased here, laughs. at the end the episode from the philippines is maybe in the middle compared to the rest of what this traveling cook, writer had done all over the world...not bad at all but ridiculously nice and i mean that in a good light :> above art is by Angu Walters of West Africa :)
