Chef Claude Tayag at the Maya Kitchen

Whee!! It’s another exciting feature at the Maya Kitchen’s Culinary Elite Series!  For tomorrow’s event, it’ll be Chef Claude Tayag who will be cooking his famous kapampangan dishes to us!! I cannot wait!!

Below is the press release from the Maya Kitchen.  I will share my experience soon just like how I did with the previous Culinary Elite Series at the Maya Kitchen… Sooooo Excited!

“From a Kapampangan Palate to an Artist’s Palette: An Update on 4  Pampango  Dishes,”  is  the  title  of  Claude  Tayag’s  cooking demonstration  for  The  Maya  Kitchen’s  Elite  Culinary  Series  on September 26, Saturday, 9am-1pm.

The well-known artist, author and chef will demonstrate Green Papaya  Lumpiang  Sariwa,  a  warm  salad.  Sisig  Terrine,  the  iconic Pampango sizzling sisig goes back to its roots. The crunchy boiled pig’s sear  is  served  cold,  with  its  symphony  of  sour,  salty,  sweet,  tangyand spicy flavors. Bringhe, a Pampango/Bulacaño fiesta rice dish (aka Valenciana in Iloilo). Is it a paella or risotto? Chef Claude calls it a ricepizza. Pistu, a Pampango special occasion morning dish, an over-the-top giniling na baboy/picadillo.  

Tayag  is  an  advocate  of  Filipino  cuisine  most  of  his  adultlife. His best-selling books include FOOD TOUR, a collection of his food and  travel  essays  from  his  column  in  the  PhilippineStar, and LINAMNAM – Eating One’s Way Around the Philippines, which he co-authored with  his  wife  Mary  Ann Quioc.  Both won the Best Philippine  Culinary  Travel  Guide in the Madrid-based GOURMANDWORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is also a co-author and the food stylist of the seminal cookbook KULINARYA – A Guidebook to Philippine Cuisine.

Tayag  is  one  of  those  rare  breed  of  “food  missionaries”  who literally puts his foot where his mouth is, so to speak. Together with his wife,  they  run  the by-reservation-only  Bale  Dutung  Restaurant  in Angeles  City,  Pampanga,  serving  sumptuous  traditional  Pampanga spread, and more recently opened Downtown 1956 Café, at the Quadin  Nepo  Center  in  the  same  city,  serving  Tayag’s  take  on Filipino comfort  foods. They  have  hosted  meals  for  such  international luminaries like Anthony Bourdain (author, TV host), Tom Parker Bowles (food  editor,  Esquire  UK),  Simon  Majumbar  (author  Eat  My  Globe), Australian chef/TV host Peter Kurovita and many other local and foreign celebrities.

For more information, log on to www.themayakitchen.com or email  contactus@themayakitchen.com or visit The Maya Kitchen Culinary Center every Tuesday to Saturday at 8F Liberty Building, 835A. Arnaiz Avenue (Pasay Road), Makati City or call 8921185 / 892-5011 local 108.