Filipino food

Food for Thought: Leche flan

By: Charlene Aviles, Staff Writer During high school, I wanted to learn more about my culture. Once a month, my teacher supervised a Filipino potluck for students. Since this tradition helped me stay connected with my cultural roots, I helped organize it after a senior student graduated. One Filipino dessert that I brought was leche flan. Leche flan is “a custard dessert made with condensed milk and egg yolks.” This dessert originates from the Roman Empire, Spain, and the US. In the Roman Empire, their cakes, called flado, contained fish or meat. Then, the Spanish adopted the Roman recipe and…

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