On this episode, we chat with author Mia Manansala about the world of her characters in the Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mysteries Series novels, of which there are currently five titles out: Arsenic and Adobo, Homicide and Halo Halo, Blackmail and Bibingka, Murder and Mamon, and Guilt and Ginataan, with the sixth book in the series, Death and Dinuguan, and a young adult novel called Death in the Cards coming out this year.
I’m a huge fan of the books - the Brew-ha cafe feels like someplace I’ve actually hung out in - and feel a kindred spirit in Lila, whose narrative and story threads the series. My kind of winter reading!
Show notes
02:00 About Mia
09:00 Favourite food memory
13:00 Cooking at home
15:00 Visiting the Philippines as an adult
18:00 Writing the world of Shady Palms
23:00 Narratives that shape you
30:00 Upcoming work