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Ariel Layug is a cook turned foodie. He considers food as the most honest portrayal of a people's culture and the best way to experience them.
He loves to dissect the flavor profiles, techniques, history, and the context of food wherever he encounters them. He is one of the few professional chefs that actually enjoys cooking at "home" as much as he does at work. Home, by the way, can sometimes be nothing more than a hotel room with a desk and small bar fridge. Thank God for rice cookers!
When not busy feeding the circus, he likes being a tourist; It is part-fun and part-research. His interests include art, spirituality, physics, and the humanities. Although an Architecture School and Culinary School drop-out he considers the real world as his classroom and everyone in it are his teachers. He has recently developed an intense curiousity about his Filipino heritage and the process of indigenization that is the main feature of Philippine cuisine. But he is always on the lookout for new food adventures.