Cookbook features Pinoy classics using Australian products
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF Great Food and Great Friendship Australian-Filipino food and travel writer Yasmin Newman shows her cookbook, ‘Under Coconut Skies: Feasts and Stories from the Philippines’ to SM’s Millie Dizon and Australian Embassy Second Secretary Alex O’Hara at the Book Nook at SM Aura Premier.
It was a celebration of great food and great friendship during the recent launch of Australian-Filipino food and travel writer, photographer and cookbook author, Yasmin Newman's Under Coconut Skies: Feasts an Stories from the Philippines at SM Aura Premier.
The event, organized by the Australian Embassy and the Australia Global Alumni in the Philippines, brought together members of the Filipino-Australian community, alumni and corporate executives.
During the afternoon reception at the mall's Skypark, Visum Ventures founder and chief executive officer John Michael Hilton, also a Filipino-Australian, joined Newman in preparing kinilaw na isda using kalamansi and Australian finger lime. Broadcast personality and Australian alumnus Martin Andanar hosted the program. They were welcomed by SM's Millie Dizon.
- Filipino-Australian John Michael Hilton, founder and CEO of Visum Ventures (the group behind brands such as Koomi, T2, Zig, and Oh My Greek) at the afternoon tea reception hosted by the Australian Embassy for cookbook author Yasmin Newman.
- Broadcast personality and Australian alumnus Filipino Martin Andanar emceed the welcome reception for cookbook author Yasmin Newman.
