The U.S. Navy recruited thousands of Filipino sailors in the mid-1900s, leading to small enclaves of Filipino communities forming near naval base sites in Charleston. While the local food scene hasn't seen many Filipino food chefs,Mansueta's Filipino Foodby chef Nikko Cagalanan has a magneti...
During the late 1920s, concerns over the large influx of Filipinos into the West Coast of the United States and falling agricultural prices for certain American commodities led to agitation that called for change in the relationship between the islands and the United States. American farmers wanted...