The SPK Book Club
A voracious book club podcast, hosted by friends Irene and Margaux. You can expect conversations on books, rabbit holes about authors’ lives, rediscovered classics and author interviews. This podcast may contain details about the food we eat while we read.
The SPK Book Club
4. On Food, Identity and Belonging with Jill Damatac
In this fourth episode, Irene and Margaux welcome Jill Damatac, a writer, filmmaker and photographer. Jill’s first book, Dirty Kitchen, a blend of memoir, food writing and history, will be published by Astra House in 2023. You can read an extract on The Margins, here: https://aaww.org/dirty-kitchen/. Jill tweets @JillDamatac.
With Jill, we talked about Tinola, grandmothers, two kitchens, the word dirty, the migrant condition, grief and healing through the acts of cooking and eating.
Recommendations from today’s episode:
Jill’s Filipino dishes: Chicken Adobo, fried fish with mango salad, Pork Sinigang (tamarind-based soup), Longanisa (a sweet sausage based on Spanish chorizo), Beef Tapa, Kare-kare (Filipino peanut oxtail stew), Tinola (ginger-chicken soup), Sisig, Pinakpet (vegetable stew) seasoned with Bagoong (a sweet and savoury shrimp paste)
Shakespeare Who?, a podcast hosted by Jill Damatac and Maxine Sibihwana
Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture by Doreen Fernandez (Anvil Publishing, 1994)
Shuggie Bain by Stuart Douglas (Picador, 2020)
The Mousetrap, a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie at The St Martin’s Theatre