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Kasing talas ng kitchen knife ang paliwanag ng tinaguriang “Lumpia Queen” na si Abi Marquez nang sumalang ito sa session ng Your Honor nitong February 15, kung saan sinagot niya ang tanong ni Madam Chair Tuesday Vargas na: “Sino mas masarap magluto: babae o lalaki?”

Para sa popular chef at content creator, sinabi niya na habang lumalaki siya, na-associate niya ang pagluluto sa kanyang nanay.

Paliwanag niya sa House of Honorables, “I grew up eating my mother's cooking, so, I associated cooking in general and good food, I associate it with 'yung pagluto in like a calm, therapeutic. Very passionate cooking, kasi 'yun 'yung nakikita ko growing up.”

“My role model was my mother,” saad niya.

Inilahad din ni Chef Abi ang obserbasyon niya kung bakit “male-dominated” ang culinary industry in general.

“Pero na-realize ko nga rin the industry is predominantly male. I think it's because siguro nung unang panahon, the culinary history goes back way, way back. I think 'yun 'yung mga time na hindi pa masyado pinapayagan ang mga kababaihan sa professional setting like sa kusina.

“And cooking kasi like in restaurants talagang bigatin trabaho siya e. It's also one of the things that affected my decision kung magwo-work ba ako sa restaurant kasi iba 'yung luto sa bahay na isang patatas lang babalatan mo, pero sa restaurant magbubuhat ka ng kilo-kilong mga bigas, patatas” paliwanag ni Abi.

Dagdag pa ni Lumpia Queen, “Talagang ano siya labor intensive talaga siya. So feeling ko na-associate 'yung kitchen work with male, but, I'm really happy kasi ngayon we have a lot of role models na in the culinary industry. The head chef in Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in Newport is a girl, is a woman!

“So ngayon, nagkakaroon na tayo ng maraming role models na I think it's also one of the things that, siguro in a side na gusto ko rin maging kumbaga inspiration or maging representative ng young Filipino cook in the industry.”

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