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SFPCG-PR-037-2021
PHILIPPINE CONSUL GENERAL IN SF LEADS FILIPINO FOOD MONTH CELEBRATION IN APRIL
SAN FRANCISCO, 30 April 2021 – Sharing scrumptious Filipino food with family, friends and colleagues, and highlighting the best of Philippine cuisine online capped the Consulate General in San Francisco’s celebration of Filipino Food Month in April.
The Consulate General collaborated with the Filipino Food Movement (filipinofoodmovement.org) in featuring Filipino Food Month in the non-profit group’s two signature online events — Kitchen Conversations and Kulinarya Live! — on its Facebook page: (www.facebook.com/FilipinoFoodMovement).
On 29 April, Philippine Consul General Neil Frank R. Ferrer and his wife Mrs. Miriam Ferrer graced the online culinary show Kulinarya Live! hosted by Keesa Ocampo of the Filipino Food Movement. Talented Chef Thomas Weibull of Dirty Habit SF and previously, of other top San Francisco restaurants, showed viewers how the traditional Filipino dish tinola is cooked with a twist. Tinola, one of the Consul General’s favorite Filipino dishes, is chicken cooked in ginger broth, combined with chayote squash, spinach and bok choy. It is best served with steamed rice.
The Filipino-Swedish Chef has made a name for himself as executive chef in some of San Francisco’s top restaurants, such as Rubicon, Les Amis, and Plouf.
On 27 April, Philippine Trade Commissioner Celynne Layug and Filipino Food Movement founder PJ Quesada talked about the development of Filipino food, as well as popular Filipino ingredients and food products that are available in the U.S. market (coconut products, such as coconut wraps, chocolate, dried mango, Philippine sea salt, etc.)
The Consulate General also made Thursday (29 April) and Friday (30 April) as Filipino Food Takeout days for its personnel. Consular personnel enjoyed a gourmet Filipino food takeout ordered from the kitchen of award-winning Chef Francis Ang of Pinoy Heritage. The Consulate lauded Chef Ang for the opening of his new restaurant Abaca in San Francisco (https://sf.eater.com/2021/4/20/22394204/pinoy-heritage-abaca-filipino-restaurant-san-francisco?fbclid=IwAR3yHZ2-DRf8qhpFknBBBXPSoX9Irou-3YIw0JD8pUA9A6ENsIDZhpc34Ww).
The Philippines celebrates April as Filipino Food Month based on Presidential Proclamation 469 and led by the Department of Agriculture – Philippines, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and non-profit group Philippine Culinary Heritage Movement. The commemoration aims to promote, preserve, and ensure the transmission of vast Filipino culinary traditions to the present and future generations, as well as to provide support to farmers, fisher folks, and to the rest of the agricultural and aquacultural communities.
The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco and Sentro Rizal San Francisco, in cooperation with the Filipino Food Movement, highlighted the celebration of Filipino Food Month this April and the 75th Anniversary of the Establishment of Philippine-U.S. Diplomatic Relations this year. END
FILIPINO FOOD TAKEOUT FROM PINOY HERITAGE
Pinoy Heritage’s Beef Kaldereta, broccolini, heirloom carrots, rice
Biko, strawberries, passionfruit curd by Pinoy Heritage
Pork Humba, hand-made Pancit, market vegetables by Pinoy Heritage
Maja Blanca, seasonal fruit by Pinoy Heritage
Kulinarya Live! show host Keesa Ocampo talks about the history of the Filipino dish tinola, with Chef Thomas Weibull.
(R-L) Consul General Neil Frank R. Ferrer, Madame Miriam Ferrer, Chef Thomas Weibull and Ms. Keesa Ocampo on the patio of Dirty Habit SF.
Chef Thomas Weibull showing the Filipino dish tinola.