ABOUT
Hi! I'm Nastasha Alli. I love that being in this industry allows me to experience our wondrous world through food.
I feature the foods I eat and places I travel to on Exploring Filipino Kitchens.
I’m obsessed with books about Filipino food and have over a hundred in my collection. A goal of mine is to prepare one recipe from each cookbook.
My recipe for Pancit Palabok was published in The New Filipino Kitchen, a San Francisco Chronicle “top cookbook of 2018”.
I’ve received the Food Sustainability Media Award from the Thomson Reuters Foundation for my article on how the climate crisis is affecting breakfast in the Philippines. I’ve also been featured on CBC Radio, NOW Toronto, Canada’s Filipino TV, Rappler, Philippine Inquirer, The Filipino Channel and other publishers for my work at the intersection of food and diaspora communities.
I've hosted and facilitated online workshops around writing, food and travel, and have guest lectured on tourism development for several Ontario colleges. Past programs have included collaborations with Hart House at the University of Toronto (Tastes of Culture series), the Mama Sita Foundation and Philippine Consulate in Toronto (for an online cook-along and lecture series), Katutubo Exchange Philippines (learning about Indigenous cultures and their foodways), and media outlets such as VICE.
Learn more about my work on LinkedIn, and say hello on Instagram or Twitter!
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Interview with Thomson Reuters Foundation on winning the 2018 Food Sustainability Media Award
"On food, identity and cooking sinigang from scratch" from The Philippine Reporter