Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream
Harvest, 2020
Alvin Cailan—founder of Eggslut and Amboy Quality Meats & Delicious Burgers and host of _The Burger Show_—tracks his personal journey from a childhood in East L.A. to celebrity chef through his Filipino and Filipino American recipes.
From the Publisher
Alvin Cailan has risen to become arguably the most high-profile chef in America’s Filipino food movement. He took the food scene by storm when he opened the now-legendary Eggslut in Los Angeles, a foodie cult favorite specializing in affordable but sophisticated egg sandwiches. Alvin also hosts the popular The Burger Show on First We Feast’s YouTube channel, with many episodes exceeding 1 million views and guests such as Seth Rogen and Padma Lakshmi. Alvin’s story of success, however, is an unlikely one. He emerged from his youth spent as part of an immigrant family in East LA feeling like he wasn’t Filipino enough to be Filipino and not American enough to be an American, thus amboy, the term for a Filipino raised in America. He had to first overcome cultural traditions and family expectations to find his own path to success, and this unique cookbook tells that story through his recipes.
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