Exploring Filipino Kitchens – Details, episodes & analysis

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Exploring Filipino Kitchens

Nastasha Alli

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Frequency: 1 episode/85d. Total Eps: 42

Thought-provoking talks on Philippine food history, traditions and culture from the diaspora looking in.

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Data updated on 08/09/2026

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🇨🇦 Canada - Food
09/09/2026
#88
🇨🇦 Canada - Food
08/09/2026
#53
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Food
15/01/2026
#91
🇨🇦 Canada - Food
08/11/2025
#69
🇨🇦 Canada - Food
07/11/2025
#46
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Food
25/02/2025
#69

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EP 42: Dining at Makilala with Chef Nuit, Jeff, and Joel Regular

Episode 42

Sunday, August 30, 2026 • Duration

On this episode we chat with Chef Nuit, Jeff, and Joel Regular, co-owners of a restaurant called Makilala in downtown Toronto. We learn about their journey to building Sukhothai, Pai, Kiin, and their other Thai restaurants - truly some of the best in the city - and we talk about how Makilala has become a quintessential part of the family. This year, Makilala landed in Toronto Life’s Best New Restaurants List, inviting more people than ever to the Filipino table.

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EP 41: The Foresters: A Story of Climate Keepers with Rafael Dionisio and Jeff Geronimo

Episode 41

Saturday, May 16, 2026 • Duration

On this episode, we visit the Yangil valley in central Luzon’s Zambales province, where a documentary called “The Foresters: A Story of Climate Keepers” follows an indigenous Aeta community and the challenges they face through a rapidly changing climate. It's also about how organizations such as MAD Travel have begun and continue to expand on massive reforestation and agri-tourism projects together with the local community. To date, over 130,000 trees have been planted in the valley!

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EP 40: On Food And Storytelling Today with Bettina Makalintal

Episode 40

Sunday, February 8, 2026 • Duration

On this episode we chat with Bettina Makalintal, senior reporter with the national team at Eater, one of today’s best-known brands in the global food media space dedicated to all things food and dining. We chat about a range of topics on Filipino food and culture through a diasporic lens, so let’s get to it!

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EP 39: Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed With Abi Balingit

Episode 39

Saturday, December 13, 2025 • Duration

On this episode we chat with Abi Balingit, author of the cookbook Mayumu: Filipino American Desserts Remixed. It landed on the New York Times’ Best Cookbooks list in 2023, winning Abi an Emerging Voice award from the James Beard Foundation the next. I’m a huge fan!

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EP 38: Dinners Inspired by History with Team Istorya

Episode 38

Sunday, November 23, 2025 • Duration

On this episode we listen to the stories behind Istorya, a Las Vegas-based pop-up restaurant that aims to showcase the diversity of cuisines across the Philippines, interpreted by chefs in the diaspora. The menus at their dinners are crafted with care and symbolic of the team's own journeys to rediscovering the history and heritage of the Philippines through through food. And we got to collab on a dinner series about the Manila-Acapulco galleons this year - how amazing was that?

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EP 37: Flavours of the Philippines with Earl Briones

Episode 37

Sunday, October 19, 2025 • Duration

On this episode we chat with Chef Earl Briones from Coterie Restaurant and Wine Bar in Edmonton, Alberta. Earlier this year, Earl and other local chefs led the “Flavours of the Philippines” sessions at the Terroir Symposium in Canada. When I learned he also presented at the Kain Conference, I knew we’d have lots to talk about!

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EP 36: Foodways of Negros with Reena Gamboa

Episode 36

Sunday, August 24, 2025 • Duration

On this episode we chat with Reena Gamboa, whose work with the amazing team at Slow Food Negros has collectively led up to the first Terra Madre Asia Pacific Conference happening in Bacolod, Negros Occidental, on November 19-23, 2025. The event’s inaugural theme is “From Soil to Sea: A Slow Food Journey Through Tastes and Traditions”. What I’d give to be there and hear those stories!

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EP 35: Becoming A Creator With Abi Marquez

Friday, July 18, 2025 • Duration

On this episode we chat with Abi Marquez, known online as the Lumpia Queen for her wildly popular “What if we wrap this in lumpia wrapper?” series on TikTok.

Abi has millions of followers across social media platforms, and today we talk about testing recipes, cooking at home, and getting judged by your content - alongside all the amazing things that can happen when you put in the work, and really believe in what you do.

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EP 34: Cooking From The Soul With Budgie Montoya

Sunday, June 22, 2025 • Duration

On this episode we chat with Chef Budgie Montoya, who envisioned and brought to life Sarap and Apoy - two uniquely Filipino restaurants in the heart of London, UK. I caught up with Budgie on his last few weeks in El Nido, Palawan, where he’s started work on his next project - a visiting guest chef program linking cooks and local food producers with the tourist market in El Nido. We talk lots about other things that overlap in our diasporic worlds, too!

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EP 33: Shifting Tastes and Landscapes with Nicole Ponseca

Episode 33

Sunday, April 27, 2025 • Duration 43:55

On this episode we delve into the evolving landscape of global Filipino cuisine with restaurateur, hospitality consultant, and author of the “I Am A Filipino” cookbook, Nicole Ponseca. We chat about seeing ourselves in the industry, the success of her restaurants Jeepney and Maharlika, things we think about when we go out to dinner, strategies to mindfully and continually grow the presence of cuisine from the Philippines across the U.S., and how one after-school snack stop with her dad left a lasting impression.

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