Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino, author of Every Ounce of Courage: A Daughter's Reflections On Her Mother's Bravery, her newest food memoir, is a multi-award winner of the Plaridel Writing Awards for journalism excellence, given by the Philippine-American Press Club in San Francisco, CA. Her food essay “A Hundred Mangoes In a Bottle” has won a Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award. She was an awardee of the FWN Filipina Women’s Network 100 Most Influential Women of the World in 2013.Betty Ann, as she is fondly called is an award-winning journalist, author, food writer, correspondent and blogs about Filipino recipes on her popular site TheQuiinoKitchen.com.She recently launched her new cookbooks: "Instant Filipino Recipes" and "My Mother's Philippine Recipes", both a follow up to her first cookbook "How to Cook Philippine Desserts: Cakes and Snacks." She co-authored the history book “Statesman and Survivor Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines. She created, illustrated and published “Color and Cook Food Coloring Book” on Filipino food art. All her books are sold on Amazon.com.She is a contributor to The Kitchn, SimplyRecipes, and Taste of Home. Her writing has also been published on Positively Filipino, the premiere online magazine; FOOD Magazine by ABS-CBN Inc.; Rustan’s Sans Rival ; and Quirk Books Community blog QuirkDIY (Philadelphia, PA). She has appeared on the TV network KACL- LA 18’s “Halo-Halo with Kat Iniba” which aired in California and Hawaii.She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals; the New York Women's Culinary Alliance, and the Association of Culinary Historians of the Philippines. She is also on the board of the President Elpidio Quirino Foundation board of advisers. Based in New Jersey, USA, Betty Ann travels often to her home in the Philippines and throughout Asia, in search of traditional recipes and stories about culture and personalities. Elizabeth Ann Quirino just published her newest book, Every Ounce of Courage, a memoir on her mother's heroism during WWII, with stories on family, faith, food, and love. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7JC8V2P?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
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