This episode we're going behind the scenes on a book called "No Forks Given" by Yana Gilbuena. It's a collection of recipes from her 50 U.S. state SALO Series pop-up dinner tour from 2014 to 2015.
Every week, Yana would hold a kamayan (hands-only) feast of Filipino food; she’d find someplace to stay, someplace to shop, someplace to host her dinner and actually get people to attend - a massive undertaking - often within the week, with so much on the fly. I learned a lot of things from this book - so let's get to it!
Show notes
01:25 Lessons I learned from the book
06:35 Summers in Iloilo
08:30 Growing up with lola
10:05 A book of our time
12:50 Cooking to heal and reclaim
15:00 The Stone Barns Fellowship
18:45 "We're an agricultural country"
20:50 Why storytelling takes drive and courage
23:45 How we shape our food culture
27:15 Immigration and the loss of knowledge
29:30 Creatures of convenience
32:35 "Food has always been part of our identity"
33:45 Barkada's first question
34:55 Pride in hospitality
FIND THE FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT HERE.
Links for this episode
Learn about the Stone Barns Centre and Yana’s batch of 2017 Exchange Fellows
Read about Yana in the New York Times, National Geographic and NBC, among others
Get a copy of No Forks Given