Lilian borromeo recipes for pork chops

Let's take it from the top: Atching Lillian's Heirloom Recipes - Romancing the Past Through Traditional Calutong Capampangan (Kapampangan Cooking) is a great book for any collection of Filipino food book titles.

It's a wonderful example of documented regional cooking.

Between detailed descriptions of local plants used by cooks in the province of Pampanga and an overview of the province's geographical features (including rich marine habitats along its shorelines and interior volcanic landscapes), you get a pretty good sense of why Kapampangan cooks are some of the country's most sought-after culinary captains.

Kapampangans (or the people of Pampanga) have built a regional cuisine recognized across the Philippines as one of the best.

Over centuries, they've established a distinct style of cooking - intensely savoury with a delightful dose of sweet - that the folks of Pampanga have brought to the rest of the