Tikim by doreen fernandez biography
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Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture
This reprint of a highly sought-after and well-regarded book of Filipino food culture has been long awaited.
Doreen G. Fernandez (profiled here in The New York Times) was an insightful and rigorous scholar of the foodways of her native country, bringing a knowledge of and curiosity about culinary history to her work. She was also a gifted writer, who brought clarity and spirit to her prose. This collection of columns features work that was published in a variety of periodicals, as well as prepared specifically for events such as The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.
“Writing about food,” Fernandez notes, “is not a matter of dipping into the thesaurus to discover the many ways to say ‘tasty.’ Instead it means digging deep into human experience, because tasting, eating, and savoring are intimate ventures….When one describes food, one does not use words alone, but the readers’ remembering as well—of past pleasures, of savored sensations. One writes on their reservoirs of pleasure. In effect, one draws on all of the culture that shaped oneself and one’s readers.”
The essays are divided into four broad sections: food and flavors; people and places; books and other feasts; food in Philippine history. A glossary is included for r
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Doreen Fernandez
Filipino writer (1934–2002)
Alicia Dorotea Gamboa Fernández (October 28, 1934–June 24, 2002), better known as Doreen Fernandez, was a noted Filipino writer, teacher, cultural historian, food critic and scholar who wrote extensively about Philippine theatre and Filipino cuisine.
Personal life
[edit]Fernandez was born on 28 October 1934 to Aguinaldo Severino Gamboa of Silay, Negros Occidental and Alicia Lucero of Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.
She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree major in English and History in 1954 from St. Scholastica's College, Manila. She completed her Master of Arts degree major in English Literature (1965) and Ph.D. in Literature (1976) from the Ateneo de Manila University.
She died on June 24, 2002, in New York City due to complications of diabetes.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]Newspaper columns
[edit]Articles
[edit]"What is Filipino Food?" introductory article for The Food of the Philippines book (1999)
"The Filipino Fiesta" introductory article for The Food of the Philippines book (1999)
Books
[edit]- The Iloilo Zarzuela, 1903-1930 (1978) [2]
- Contemporary Theater Arts: Asia and the United States (1984) [3]
- Sarap: Essays on Philippine Food (1988) [4]
- Lasa: A
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Bibliographic Information
Author Biography
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