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LESTER LEDESMA
Load up on the northern pride of the Pinoy
plate, with a bit of history on the side.
Sam Soushi serves up the region
,
s all-time favorites
Iconic
Ilocano
eats
TWO KEY
ingredients have shaped
Ilocano cuisine: the region’s geography
and colorful history.
Covering the sprawl between the
Cordillera Mountains and the West
Philippine Sea, the region is exposed to
extreme seasonal changes. Its terrain is
largely flat and dry, but “flat” and “dry” do
not describe everything else about it, least
of all its cuisine, where several sumptuous
icons of the Filipino table came from.
Environmental conditions have inspired
many cooking and food preservation
techniques too, resulting in a number of
the region’s tastiest dishes, such as
bagnet
and
longganisa
.
Here’s a sampling of what’s served best
by the north.