Vanjo merano biography books

IF ONE searches for a Filipino recipe on Google, chances are you’ll find Panlasang Pinoy’s website.

Sure, cookbooks are available, but as the world goes increasingly digital, so have our references. Vanjo Merano, the website’s founder, has been at it since 2009, making him one of the first to send out Filipino recipes in the digital space.

Through our multiple searches (in writing this story, we realized that we had bookmarked Mr.

Merano’s recipes for humba, a pork and salted black beans dish; and sago at gulaman, a Filipino sugar-based drink), we neglected to click on Mr. Merano’s video links, which led to his YouTube channel. We had zero idea on what the person behind the recipes was like (turns out he was a fit 45-year-old man; not the Filipino lola in our internal voiceover), and that he had 6.97 million subscribers on YouTube.

We met Mr.

Merano during his introduction as another ambassador of i