Published March 6, 2021, 9:11 AM
We are kicking off Women’s month at Mesa ni Misis with our Bahay Kubo Kitchen series with Sheryl Ocampo, featuring El Nido. Hailed as “The world’s most beautiful beach” by travel magazines, El Nido also boasts a bounty of indigenous crops that are underutilized in our daily cooking. Through Sheryl, we learned new and creative ways on how to use her three favorite crops:
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Sheryl Ocampo
Originally from General Santos, Sheryl has frequented El Nido since 2011 when there was no electricity on the island. She has been living here for the past six years raising her children in nature’s playground with the beach and open fields for them to explore. Her restaurant, Glow, features local plant based dishes that encourage tourists to sample what true Filipino flavors and produce. Sheryl’s advocacy is to “decolonialize” our pallete—to strip back all the foreign influences on our food through the years of colonization, and to look back to our Maharlika roots for flavors in our food.