Appetite for Freedom: The Recipes of Maria Y. Orosa

There are about 700 recipes in this book, quite a feat when these are all from one person — Maria Ylagan Orosa — or inspired by her. Orosa is a much-neglected figure in Philippine history and culture. But while she was cited mainly for her work in the resistance against Japanese occupation, it is her collected recipes that is her better legacy. — Michaela Fenix

A Goldilocks Signature Bakebook

This 50th Anniversary Edition of the Goldilocks Bakebook revisits a number of themes that are intertwined with Goldilocks Bakeshop and the family that started it. Perhaps more than anything else, however, this book - like the edition that came before it - is a love story. Filipinos have a unique relationship with food, and food is often used to demonstrate love and affection toward others. This bakebook features over 50 recipes that Filipinos all over the world have come to love.

Written by Stephen Acabado

For nearly 100 years, academics and the lay public have quarreled over, debated, and investigated the antiquity of the Ifugao rice terracing system of the Cordillera Central in the Philippines.

Though they have been long argued to be some 2000 years old and a massive building challenge, we now gain solid evidence that they initially predate, at best, a short time before the Spanish appearance in the archipelago.

Written by Stephanie Coo

“This book is, to date, the most comprehensive and rigorously-researched study on the forms of dress worn by almost all types and classes of inhabitants of the Philippines under Spain from 1820 to 1896.

Written in a lucid style and appropriately documented with prints and photographs of the period, this work is an indispensable source book for all artists who design for theater, film, television, and the fashion industry, as well as historians of all persuasions and Filipinophiles of all nations.”

Written by Arturo Pacho

Embark upon an adventurous journey through the islands of the Philippines and explore the taste, aroma, and high spirits that dwell in each bottle of native tropical wines.

From the cultural textures of tapuy, basi and tuba to daring new wines from rare fruits and staple crops, these tropical wines follow the arrival of Filipino food, heralded as a new exciting culinary frontier.

Learn how traditional wines changed Philippine history in the fight for independence, examine their socioeconomic aspects, and marvel in the ingenious techniques used to create delicious wines found nowhere else.