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The Adobo Road Cookbook Trailer

Movie trailers are great in that they provide movie-goers a whiff of things to come. Give a movie studio two minutes, and they'll cram the best parts of their upcoming 2-hour Rom-Com-Mystery-Psycho-Thriller-DocuDrama-Kung-Fu-Vampire-vs-Zombie-epic into that trailer and hope it's enough to get you back in the theater in time for opening weekend and beyond.

For me, any movie that involves Liam Neeson, Matt Damon, or a member of the Wu-Tang Clan punching someone in the throat, is a movie that I will very likely see. What can I say? I'm a huge fan Action/Unintentional Comedy flicks.

On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, yet serving a similar purpose, are cookbook trailers (yes, there is such a thing). Cookbook trailers, likewise, provide readers and cooks a whiff of things to come. Give a blogger-on-a-budget 2 minutes, and he'll hopefully entice readers with food and backstory galore.

Which brings us to my very own cookbook trailer for my upcoming book, The Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey. The book will be released by Amazon on April 23, and should reach bookstores by the first week of May.

Sadly, my cookbook trailer lacks any punches to the throat or any Wu-Tang Clan members (like I said, blogger-on-a-budget), but there's a high chance of unintentional comedy depending on your viewpoint.

Without further ado:

Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You! The Adobo Road Cookbook!

I must thank my good friend, Matt (who writes the awesome sports blog Throwback Attack) for filming and putting this trailer together.

I also want to thank Ron Quesada of Kulintronica, for providing the music for the video as well. If you listen closely, you'll be able to hear the Kulintang—a traditional Filipino gong instrument—being played in a not-so-traditional way. Here's the music info:

Title: "Twistin Up Your Timeline (Toddler Mix)" (R. Quesada)

Artist:  Kulintronica

Produced by: Bill Williams

From the upcoming full-length album "Kulintronica"

kulintronica.com

Cookbook Update: A Title Change, and a Quick Peek Inside

Since turning in my cookbook manuscript to my editor a few months back, things, for the most part, have been relatively quiet. As a first-time author, I'm learning that there's a lot of waiting involved in the publishing process.

But just last week, during a most furious stretch of thumb-twiddling, my editor sent me a first draft layout of my book! A first draft layout is pretty much what it sounds like: a draft version of my entire cookbook that shows how my text and photos will be arranged (i.e. the overall design and aesthetic of what the completed book will look like once it's finished).

I must say, after spending the better part of a year writing and photographing in a vacuum, it felt so good to finally see how my words and pictures are being put together by the great design team at Tuttle. I can't even express how cool everything looks and how excited I am to be working on this project. It's really starting to look like my book is coming to life. Huzzah!

But before I share a very quick peek at the shape my book is taking, I also want to mention that there's been a change of title for my cookbook as well. Wha?!!