Author: Molly Monahan, Lucas Cook and Luis Arellanes

A door opens. A bell tinkles. The aroma of fresh corn floods the senses. Color catches the eye, bright blues and reds and everything in between. Picnic benches with red seats and white table tops to the right. To the left, candies and ice cream. Straight ahead, the main cuisine, paletas. The fresh frozen fruit … Continued

It was noisy. The staccato of Ilocano, the singsong of Tagalog, two native tongues of the Philippines cut through the din and paired with the comfortable rhythm of Filipino English. This, all punctuated with laughter, was the chorus that greeted us as we arrived at the 63rd Annual Filipino Community Harvest Dinner, a fiesta to … Continued