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this dish what this is is a combination 

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of of history goes back way back in 

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time . It's a very simple dish which is 

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one of the most popular dishes in the 

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Philippines and it's called adobo , 

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which adobo in spanish literally 

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translates to marinate or typical on 

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the bottom . This garden . The 

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way this 

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food is cooked is really through the 

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use of vinegar and preservation . 

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So cooking this dish is actually a 

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means of how to preserve food . So it's 

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not really a dish . It's a process 

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in the old days . What they do is they 

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would like use the vinegar to preserve 

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the meat over time . And uh that way 

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they could prepare it later on that 

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they could just cook it and eat it up 

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and over a fire . Mhm . So if you look 

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at this dish , it really represents not 

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just one culture but it represents a 

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bunch of cultures put together that 

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have a debt are bridged together 

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through history time through conflict . 

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So for me this dish really brings us 

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home what I did with this dish to is 

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add a little bit of coconut to it 

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because coconut for me is what kind of 

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ties together the region where I'm from 

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where my mother is from the Philippines 

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coconut his life . So this really ties 

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in um a lot of cultures together . Not 

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only the ancient tribals um people of 

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the Philippines but you also look at 

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you know the spanish era , their 

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influence why the dishes called adobo 

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pork is one of those things that's 

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cooked for special occasions . You know 

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what I mean ? So I think this culture 

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not only just represents one of mine In 

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the Philippine culture but also 

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represents the Asian , American Pacific 

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Islander culture as a whole . And now 

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here we are , you know , 2022 

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generations and generations later this 

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dish still stands the test of time . 

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That's why I chose this dish to 

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represent this much and I hope you guys 

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enjoy .