Adobo Chocolate Chip Cookies and Halo-Halo Baked Alaska: Inside the creative mind of Chef Abi Balingit

Born of Kapampangan parents, Filipino-American chef Abi Balingit doesn't just know what makes food good, she's on a league of her own when it comes to recipe innovation.

James Beard awardee and cookbook author Chef Abi Balingit will be holding events this March during the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Credit: Abi Balingit

Key Points

• James Beard awardee and cookbook author Chef Abi Balingit will be holding events this March during the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
• Abi Balingit is well-known for her Adobo Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.
• For Balingit, Filipino food is "everything" to her.

Filipino food can be healthy, can be fun, can be all these things...and being in the diaspora, you're adding layers and layers of complexity and nuances to it.

Abi Balingit, James Beard awardee and author of 'Mayumu'

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