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April 29, 2021 | 12:02 am
Kaye Leah Cacho-Sitchon won first prize for her essay
Sinanglaw for Breakfast. Second and third prizes went to Jeanne Rebollido Jacob-Ashkenazi for
Bile. More Than Just an Unlikely Condiment and
Welcoming the Goat to Our Tables, respectively.
There were three honorable mention awardees. Wilson Lee Flores wrote about his mother in
A Literature Teacher’s ‘Magical’ Kitchenette. Rosy Mina won for
Are You What You Eat? and Shulamite Maiden Pormentira won for
The Bitter, the Better.
The DGF Award is now in its 19
th year. Named after the late dean of food writers, Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, it was founded to encourage writers to contribute to Philippine food literature. The winning essays of the first 15 years have been published in two books