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February 28, 2007 | Posted by Armand B. Frasco at Asia-Pacific, Visual Arts

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September 2006

PHOTOGRAPHER Wong Maye-E documents the plight of a Filipina domestic worker in Singapore in a photo essay entitled "Day Off".

"Day Off: Photographs of foreign domestic workers in Singapore, a traveling exhibition, October-December 2003 What do maids do beyond cleaning our houses? Can good care-taking be strictly professional with no emotional attachment? Should it? What happens to a maid who is newly-arrived? And above all, what does a maid do on her days off? Six photographers - incidentally, all of them women - went looking for some answers. Their brief was to expand our understanding of the lives maids lead here. At the time of their arrival, most maids have few resources and friends, and have to cope with missing their families. But they are also inventive."

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February 25, 2007 | Posted by Armand B. Frasco at Food, North America

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September 2006

WHAT BETTER TIME to launch a book about Philippine cuisine than in the dead of winter when everyone's tummy is homesick for the warmth of a home-cooked meal:

Owners of the popular New York City restaurant Cendrillon, Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan, have dedicated years to tracing the native traditions and outside influences on the food of the Philippines. In MEMORIES OF PHILIPPINE KITCHENS: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near (Stewart, Tabori & Chang; November 2006; $35) they present the results of that research, documenting family recipes from throughout the Philippines, capturing and preserving traditional cooking methods, and presenting Romy's acclaimed versions of Filipino food. While other Asian countries established a formal cuisine through palace kitchens that trained chefs and passed cooking techniques and traditions intact from one generation to the next, the essence of Filipino cuisine lies in the simple kitchens of Filipino homes. In providing the book's narrative, Amy Besa (who Peter Kaminsky has called "the heart and the soul of New York's Asian food community") traces the history of this Filipino home cooking, from native dishes ("Food That Was Always Ours") to dishes that show the influence of the Chinese, the Spanish and Mexicans, and the Americans ("Food that Was Borrowed and Made Our Own"), with her recollections of growing up in the Philippines interspersed throughout.

More at Amy and Romy's Cendrillon blog.

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| Posted by Armand B. Frasco at Announcements, Culture, Visual Arts

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September 2006

U.S.-BASED FILIPINO artist Wilfredo Pascual has started "Lagalag" - a traveling journal project for Filipinos.

A tattoed military man in Japan rescues a dying man inside a car. A writer in Cambodia undergoes a painful ritual and loses himself in a foreign land. A former recording artist discovers new wells of creativity in Canada. A man in the gaming industry prowls the streets of Manila in search of lost messages.

They have never met each other but they are bound to share one amazing journey around the world. They are just four of the twenty Filipinos in Lagalag, sharing one thing in common â€“ they all take pictures.

Twenty different ways on how Filipinos see the world. Twenty photos. Twenty stories. One destination. Your doorstep.

Dadaan ba sa iyo ang biyaheng Pinoy?

Learn more at the project's FLICKR site.

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