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Jennifer Fergesen Receives Two Plaridel Awards from the Philippine American Press Club FOR THE SECOND consecutive year, Roots & Wings magazine staff writer Jennifer Fergesen received the Plaridel Award for Best Food Story from the Philippine American Press Club. This year, she also received the Plaridel Award for International Reporting for her stories on the restaurants of the Filipino diaspora, which she continued to report remotely after the pandemic ground international travel to a halt. The story that received Best Food Story, originally published in Positively Filipino magazine, was reported during the summer of 2019, when Jennifer traveled to Georgia — a former Soviet nation that straddles Asia and Europe — to visit the country’s only Filipino restaurant. There, she learned the role that the nation plays in the imaginations of Filipino OFWs in the Middle East. We have reproduced the winning story in full in this issue.
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