Abi Balingit

nonfiction/cooking - beautifully photographed recipes for a wide variety of desserts and sweets with Filipinx flavors and ingredients, plus a little background on the author's family and travels.

I'm not so much of a baker/chef to actually acquire the required ingredients and put the actual work in, but the pictures, stories, and descriptions in here are extremely tempting! If you are wanting to make Filipinx-inspired desserts and snacks, you'll love this collection, filled with helpful tips for sourcing and using ingredients and so many long-tested favorite recipes of the author (also found at theduskykitchen.com). For the rest of us who prefer to buy our sweets, it's a really lovely book for browsing (and drooling over).… (més)