why rice & fork?

rice & fork is a nod to our family’s Filipino culinary roots that traveled the ocean to America generations ago — where cherished recipes steeped in tradition continued, handed down from beloved grandparents, parents, aunties, and uncles (that’s lolas, lolos, nanays, tatays, titas and titos in Tagalog). ❤️

On these pages, good friends and extended family alike share recipes from both east and west — each a love letter to someone who taught them how to make it, or a riff they’ve created that is a modern take of an original version.