Winners of food writing tilt out

THE DOREEN Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award (DGF Award) has announced the winners of the 2020 competition. The subject matter was “Livestock,” which, in the Philippines refers to cattle, pigs, goats, carabaos, and horses.

Kaye Leah Cacho-Sitchon won first prize for her essay Sinanglaw for Breakfast. Second and third prizes went to Jeanne Rebollido Jacob-Ashkenazi for Bile. More Than Just an Unlikely Condiment and Welcoming the Goat to Our Tables, respectively.

There were three honorable mention awardees. Wilson Lee Flores wrote about his mother in A Literature Teacher’s ‘Magical’ Kitchenette. Rosy Mina won for Are You What You Eat? and Shulamite Maiden Pormentira won for The Bitter, the Better.

The DGF Award is now in its 19th year. Named after the late dean of food writers, Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, it was founded to encourage writers to contribute to Philippine food literature. The winning essays of the first 15 years have been published in two books — Savor the Word and Sangkap.