How a Filipino Poet’s Kitchen Became His Daughter’s Writing Desk - Electric Literature

How a Filipino Poet’s Kitchen Became His Daughter’s Writing Desk - Electric Literature

In her latest book, part memoir and part biography, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen, Monica Macansantos writes fifteen richly textured essays about her father’s legacy both in her writings and in the kitchen where she finds his continued presence as she recreates his recipes that he’s developed over the years. The collection is at once a coming of age of a writer and a foray into what it means to live in other people’s imaginings of being Filip…