A history of food is fascinating not so much because of the scents, colors, and flavors of food but the way in which food shapes people and how people shape the food they eat . . . A history of ice cream in the Philippine is not just a catalog of taste but an alternative way of looking at how Filipinos have changed to become the nation we want to be. –From the lead essay A History of “Dirty Ice Cream”

1. Philippine essays (English).