IN THE KUSINA: My Seasonal Filipino Cooking  is a visually rich celebration of Woldy’s heritage filtered through his distinct lens as a queer, first-generation Filipino American, with more than 100 vibrant, vegetable-forward updates on classic Filipino recipes and flavors. These aren’t your lola’s traditional dishes; here, Filipino tastes and techniques are reimagined for a new generation of home cooks, resulting in a trove of elegant and boldly flavorful recipes organized by season, including:

Garlic Furikake Rice with Fried Egg

Pancit Salad

Adobo Green Beans

Kabocha Squash Lumpia 

Decadent hot and cold drinks, luscious desserts, and much more

Featuring inspired combinations of texture, technique, and flavor, these recipes are uncomplicated yet taste complex. A section covering foundational sauces and pantry items—such as Coconut Hot Sauce, Miso Mushroom Bagoong, and Sweet and Spicy Banana Ketchup—rounds out the offering and makes it easy to begin experimenting with Filipino flavors.

Brimming with gorgeously stylish photos of food that’s as lovely to look at as it is to eat, this is more than just a carefully curated selection of recipes. IN THE KUSINAis a joyful story told in Woldy’s charming voice, a love letter to Filipino food, and, most of all, a cookbook filled with delicious recipes that you’ll turn to again and again.