{"product_id":"dirty-kitchen-a-memoir-of-food-and-family-hardcover","title":"Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJill Damatac\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the style of \u003ci\u003eCrying in H Mart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e, filmmaker Jill Damatac blends memoir, food writing, and colonial history as she cooks her way through recipes from her native-born Philippines and shares stories of her undocumented family in America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJill Damatac left the United States in 2015 after living there as an undocumented immigrant with her family for twenty-two years. America was the only home she knew, where invisibility had become her identity and where poverty, domestic violence, ill health, and xenophobia were everyday experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst traveling to her native Philippines, Damatac eventually settled in London, England, where she was free to pursue an education at the University of Cambridge, fully investigate her roots, and process what happened to her and her family. After nine years, she was granted British citizenship, and returned to the United States, for the first time without fear of deportation or retribution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDamatac weaves together forgotten colonial history and long-buried Indigenous tradition, taking us through her time in America, and cooking her way through Filipino recipes in her kitchen as she searches for a sense of self and renewed possibility. With emotional intelligence, clarity, and grace, \u003ci\u003eDirty Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e explores fractured memories to ask questions of identity, colonialism, immigration, and belonging, and to find ways in which the ritual, tradition, and comfort of food can answer them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill Damatac is a writer and filmmaker born in the Philippines, raised in the US, and now a UK citizen, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eHer film and photography work has been featured on the BBC and in \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and at film festivals worldwide; her short documentary film \u003ci\u003eBlood and Ink\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eDugo at Tinta\u003c\/i\u003e), about the Indigenous Filipino tattooist Apo Whang Od, was an official selection at the Academy Award-qualifying DOC NYC and won Best Documentary at Ireland's Kerry Film Festival. Jill holds an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Documentary Film from the University of the Arts London. Follow her on Instagram @JillDamatac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984494035245,"sku":"9781668084632","price":28.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/8bImIijt2D9781668084632.webp?v=1776096603","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/dirty-kitchen-a-memoir-of-food-and-family-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}