Meet Lokalpedia, the food heritage advocate documenting overlooked endemic Filipino ingredients | nolisoliph
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The visual archive started out partly as a sort of companion to The Banana Leaf Kitchen, Felix’s cooking account, which highlights both classic and lesser-known dishes of Philippine cuisine. After acquiring the ingredients, he photographs them and then composes a caption, which, after reading enough of them a careful reader might appreciate their unusual succinctness—there’s the scientific name , how it tastes, when and where the ingredient can be found, and how it can be used. No more, no less.
The visual archive started out partly as a sort of companion to The Banana Leaf Kitchen, Felix’s cooking account, which highlights both classic and lesser-known dishes of Philippine cuisine.
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