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Catch “Culinary Dreams: Filipino-American Chefs Forum and Dinner Party" Details! From September 27 to 30, Purple Yam will open its kitchen in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park for “Culinary Dreams: Filipino-American Chefs Forum and Dinner Party,” a hybrid event where open dialogue and scrumptious dinner will have an experimental performance. The public forum-cum-dinner party from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. will feature a bicoastal cast of seven chefs – three from the Bay Area and four from New York. Three of the Bay Area’s most successful chefs —Dominic Ainza of Mercury Restaurant & Lounge in San Francisco; Tim Luym of Attic Restaurant in San Mateo, Calif.; and Cocoy Ventura of Cocoy Ventura Culinary Services in San Francisco — will join Purple Yam owners Romy Dorotan and Amy Besa, Perry Mamaril and King Phojanakong of Umi Nom in Brooklyn and Kuma Inn in Manhattan. To read more, click HERE!

Pinoy Chefs in the Philippines can earn as much as 100k to 400k working as Executive Chefs in 5-Star Hotels. Add to that lucrative salary is the housing from the hotel they are working with. Let's talk about the life and how good the Filipino Chefs are in Bawal Ang Pasaway kay Mareng Winnie. Some people can tell just by aroma whether they are cooking the food right. Others, like Mareng Winnie, need a recipe in front of them. The story of Chef Mau and Chef Carlo teaches us that there is no easy way to success.