Abstract
Abstract: Food writing is a critical arena in which embodied, gendered, and racialized knowledges are being negotiated by cultural tastemakers. Through close readings of Nicole Ponseca’s I Am a Filipino: And This is How We Cook (2018), Alvin Cailan’s Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream (2020), and Yana Gilbuena’s No Forks Given: Recipes and Memories of a Traveling Chef (2018), this essay begins to trace the hidden intimacies of food, colonialism, and family migration that structures differing definitions of culinary authenticity. Using a family recipe, this article, also analyzes how culinary authenticity is navigated, unsettled, and reformulated on a quotidian level. Overall, these hidden intimacies written in cookbooks, recipes, and alimentary narratives formulate the arena of authenticity that structure the overall nature of Filipino American foodways.
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