THE ADOBO BOOK: TRADITIONAL & JAZZED-UP RECIPES - Philippine Book

Nick Joaquin's Adobo Line: So who doesn't have a favorite adobo? Certainly not Nick Joaquin. Surely he savoured adobo and was pampered with all persuasions of it-for what better pulutan to go with ice cold beer? Of adobo, he wrote: "I tell my readers that the best compliment they can pay me is to say that they smell adobo or lechon when they read me. I was smelling adobo and lechon when I wrote me."