Family food treasures

MANILA, Philippines - Tonight at 9:10, Q-11’s Doqmentaries presents No Taste Like Home, a feature on family treasures. 

Host Rhea Santos visits Pampanga, the country’s culinary capital, where she meets Lillian Borromeo, a Kapampangan cook and culinary historian. A visit to her ancestral home in Mexico, Pampanga is a feast for the senses. Her dishes not only reflect Pampanga’s rich culinary tradition but also remind the present generation about how cooking can be a labor of love.

Rhea also meets young chef Mary Rose Bumanglag, who has become an ambassador of Pinoy goodwill and good food. Aside from being the executive chef of Dome Café, she is also private chef of a Manila-based American family related to the late US President John F. Kennedy.

Food also serves to turn the fortunes of enterprising families like the Narciso family, owners of La Moderna Bakery in Guagua, Pampanga. Exuding a century’s worth of resilience, the bakery is a family heirloom passed down for five generations.

Rhea also visits Tiny Kitchen, a cooking school for kiddie chefs. Under the guidance of Chef Vicky Veloso-Barrera, little cooks as young as four years old learn cooking basics, local recipes and even a taste of Europe and Asia.