Join Lydia as she time travels to
the fifties and sixties when big families were the norm, living was simple and
uncomplicated, marriages last, and people’s dreams do indeed come true.
Grab a chair and join her family
as they partake of meals lovingly prepared and personally cooked by a mom who
started married life totally ignorant of the basics of cooking and emerged one
of the best cooks of her generation.
Walk the insides of a wet market
in Manila’s Chinatown and be amazed at how people bought and sold produce
without plastic. It can be done and they did it.
Learn basic kitchen skills in a
time before the advent of dressed chickens and squeaky clean air-conditioned
supermarkets.
Be among the privileged ones to
get hold of Mama’s heirloom recipes and feel free to add them to your own
repertoire of treasured dishes.
Marvel at the vast array of
exquisite dishes in a Chinese lauriat that brings out the freshest and the
finest a culinary master can offer, and how this family celebrated because of a
father who believed that “tsia si hok” eating
is prosperity.
Discover the timeless maxims that
helped shape a whole generation and kept them grounded.
Take a front row seat to see how
children of Lydia’s generation took to their studies and gather hints on how to
raise children who enjoy going to school and turn out more than well.
And most of all see how food acts
as the binding gel of childhood, camaraderie, community, a LAURIAT, truly A
CELEBRATION OF FAMILY.
