Prior to the new year, California-based T. Hasegawa USA declared in its 2024 Food and Beverage Flavor Trends Report that ube will be the flavor of the year. In 2015, National Geographic wrote, “The Filipino Food Wave Is Coming” while Mashable declared that Filipino cuisine would be a “huge food trend you'll devour in 2016.” When the trend failed to …
Illustration: HuffPost; Photos: Getty/Courtesy Conrad Washington Born in the Philippines and raised in Forest Hills, Queens, chef Ria Montes studied at the International Culinary Center. In this edition of Voices In Food, Montes talks to reporter Katie Lockhart about misconceptions about Filipino food and why she doesn’t want to be known for cooking only that cuisine. “Although I love Filipino …
