Quezon City, Philippines — April 2026 — This April, in celebration of Filipino Food Month, Chef Tatung presents KitchiZen—not as a cookbook, but as an offering. Before it became a book, KitchiZen was already a way of being. A KitchiZen—a kitchen citizen—is not a culinary identity, but a civic one: a person shaped by the discipline of the stove, where fire must be watched, timing matters, and knowing when to stop is part of the craft. It is a practice of proportion—not the rej