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"It’s not about making space at the table, because we’ve been at the table. Filipinos have been working our butts off for chefs cooking other people’s cuisine. It’s time to cook our food."
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Melissa MirandaWhen we talk about pride, we are reclaiming it. We are giving value to — Melissa Miranda
"When we talk about pride, we are reclaiming it. We are giving value to not just food, but to ourselves, and to our history, and honoring the struggles that our parents went through. And I can talk about my dad a lot, but my mom, she has been my biggest cheerleader. She has been at every single event."
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Melissa Miranda is an American chef and restaurateur. Miranda was named one of Food and Wine Magazine's 2022 Best New Chefs and is a 2023 James Beard Award semifinalist. She is the founder of Musang, a Filipino restaurant located in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood.
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"The thing that I’m most excited about is the sense of pride. There is a sense of pride to be Filipino again, and that has come from food."
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"Because of the colonization that occurred in the Philippines, we were never given a sense of value. Because of that, we never gave value to our food"
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