About Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino

Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino is a multi-award winner of the Plaridel Writing Awards for excellence in journalism, given by the Philippine-American Press Club in San Francisco, California. She 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.

Betty Ann, as she is fondly called is an author, journalist, food writer, correspondent, former ad agency creative director and blogs about Filipino recipes on her popular site Asian in America (www.AsianInAmericaMag.com).

She wrote the cookbooks "Instant Filipino Recipes: My Mother's Traditional Philippine Food in a Multicooker Pot", "My Mother's Philippine Recipes" and "How to Cook Philippine Desserts: Cakes and Snacks" [Filipino Cookbook Recipes of Asian In America]. 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 original Filipino food art. All books are sold on Amazon.com.

Her writing has been published on Positively Filipino, the premiere online magazine; FOOD Magazine by ABS-CBN Inc.; Rustan's Sans Rival Magalogue; and Quirk Books Community blog (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 and the Association of Culinary Historians of the Philippines. She serves as a Member of the Board of Advisers at the President Elpidio Quirino Foundation. Based in New Jersey, USA, Betty Ann travels often to the Philippines and Asia in search of traditional recipes and stories about culture and personalities.