User:Kaintayo2015/Amy Besa

Amy Besa is a renowned Filipino food advocate, researcher, author, and restaurateur behind the acclaimed Purple Yam (Brooklyn) and Cendrillon (formerly in Soho, Manhattan, now closed) restaurants. She is also the founder of Ang Sariling Atin Culinary Heritage Institute, which aims to build knowledge on Philippine culinary heritage and inform about the Filipino palate through the documentation and preservation of family heirloom recipes, old cooking techniques and traditional cooking equipment.

Awards and Recognitions

 * In 2006, Amy and Romy co-authored ''Memories of Philippine Kitchens"", which won the IACP Jane Grigson Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Quality of Research Presentation

Books

 * ''Memories of Philippine Kitchens : Stories and Recipes from Far and Near"" / Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan ; photographs by Neal Oshima.