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I recently volunteered to man the exhibit of Slow Food Philippines during the World Food Expo held at the SMX Convention Center on Aug. 3-6. It was a thrilling and learning-filled experience, especially for first timers like me.
The Philippines is home to a wide variety of crops and livestock, many of them disappearing from cultivation due to modernization. A handful of them are listed in the Ark of Taste, the Slow Food Movement’s catalog of endangered foods from across the globe. There are currently 65 Filipino food ingred