The DGF Essay Writing Awards—the country’s first and most prestigious food writing contest inspired by Philippine culinary writing icon Doreen Gamboa Fernandez—is now open for entries for this year’s competition. The theme for this year’s competition is—fish. “As with the previous topic fowl, we hope to get stories of different fishes, ways of cooking, research into the different kinds of fish,” explained Micky Fenix, one of the founders of the writing competition. The competition aims to answer the question, “Is fish important in our food culture?” I have yet to study the importance of fish in our food culture but after the controversies the past few weeks in Recto Bank, I know for sure that fish is of great importance to our economy.

Salcedo, M. (2019, June 30). Distinguishing the 'real' Filipino fish. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. B4.