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SPECIAL HUE DINNER

(CENTRAL VIETNAM REGION)

Friday, May 16, 2008, 7 pm, Cendrillon

$55 prix fixe (excluding drinks, tax, gratuity)

One of the most common requests I get from friends and acquaintances returning from Vietnam is "where can we get Hue food here?"  After tasting for the first time delicacies of this central region of Vietnam, people seem to be invigorated by that eating experience, and are eager to recapture  it once back home.   Here in the U.S, it can be a challenge to find a Vietnamese restaurant specializing only in Hue food, even if you live in an area with a large Vietnamese population.  And when you manage to find one, the experience seems less than satisfying because the food doesn't always taste as good as what you remember.  Maybe it is just impossible to recapture the flavors, textures, colors or sights and sounds of food from back home wherever it may be.

Special Hue Dinner Menu (click here)

Memories of Philippine Kitchens (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) by Cendrillon owners, Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan is now available at Cendrillon and your favorite bookstores and booksellers online.

Memories of Phillipine Kitchens was named one of the best cookbooks of 2007 by the Sunday Times of London. Click here to read the article.

Go here to read an article on Phillipine Christmas by Bee Wilson.

UPDATE:
Memories of Philippine Kitchens was awarded the 2007 IACP Jane Grigson Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Quality of Research and Presentation.
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Chef Romy Dorotan met Jane Grigson in 1982 when he was lunch chef at Hubert's in Manhattan. Jane never forgot the lunch he cooked for her and wrote about him in one of her books about a Filipino chef cooking and experimenting with exotic Asian ingredients in New York City. Romy had her sign his copy of her famous and iconic book, The Mushroom Feast.
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Friday, June 29, 2007 in Philadelphia
at the TBar-Everything Tea
117 South 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107 Contact: Dr. Joan May T. Cordova,
sponsored by Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Trustees

Tour Pictures:
Iskwelahang Pilipino Memories of Philippine Kitchens book launch, Bedford, MA
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Click here to read about Amy and Romy in the Boston Globe

Letters From Your Tita

Pictures from San Francisco
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Pictures from Los Angeles
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Pictures from the Rustans Memories launch in the Philippines.
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Memories was launched in Hong Kong Feb 07 by our dear friends Eli & Marie Remolona co-hosted by the local UP Alumni Association.
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Click to view more pictures from Hong Kong

Regina O's Photos. Click here to view

Philippine Kitchens From Far and Near featuring Memories of Philippine Kitchens in the Philippine Inquirer; article by Reggie Aspiras. (Click for PDF)