Anita's Kitchen is a metaphor of ideas intended in the beginning as a book of Filipino recipes in their true original forms. It evolved into an adaptation of the Filipino cuisine in the author's home State of Washington where ingredients usually are not available.
A recent visit in the Philippines [by the author] made Anita's Kitchen took a completely different turn into a business concept of restaurants using management style that assures success as a low cost but pleasant and high standard local dinning places, featuring the usual native and regional menus all over the islands; spiced with a primary goal of teaching the locals how to run a profitable business to raise badly needed funds for advocacies in the homeland.
Through the suggestions of many, Anita's creativity took Anita's Kitchen into a new level of connection which encourages the continuing metamorphosis of the Filipino cuisine as overseas Filipinos from all over the globe modify the Filipino cookery into a dynamic, enjoyable, gratifying and healthy diet anybody would dare try – The creation of the OFCuisineInternational.com.
Anita's Kitchen blossomed into a three dimensional entity – that of a recipe book with tid bits of the author's experiences [while traveling in the different regions of the Philippines] utilizing new and different approaches that keep the reader's interest glued in the learning experience of cooking, a business venture aimed at financing various programs that'll help the motherland; and flourishing into the modern forum of cyberspace to transform the Filipino cuisine into a global specialty.
And about cooking:
Ah … cooking to the uninitiated is the simple preparation of food to be devoured and satisfy hunger. It is however an art unique in itself that takes patience, careful planning and the cautious selection of ingredients; and above all perfect timing in its execution to produce that unforgettable aroma and taste that waters the mouth, brings pleasant memories and joy to oneself satisfying that hunger even before the food is actually consumed.
Unlike other arts cooking satisfies two senses rather than one; short lasting with no permanency; and can never be exactly duplicated even by the same artist.
Nelson Paguyo,
Maple Grove, MN May 21, 2008
Dr. Nelson Paguyo is the author of the book HEALTHCARE for all AMERICANS
