Alvin Cailan has risen to become arguably the most high-profile chef in North America’s Filipino food movement. Alvin emerged from his youth spent as part of an immigrant family in East LA feeling like he wasn’t Filipino enough to be Filipino and not American enough to be an American. And thus, amboy was coined: the term for a Filipino raised in America. He had to first overcome cultural traditions and family expectations to find his own path to success, and this unique cookbook tells that story through recipes.
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