Come celebrate Philippine Independence Day with us at the library! Join us for storytime and halo-halo making with our Kababayan Kids team along with Filipino Instant Pot Cookbook co-author Romeo Roque-Nido.

RSVP required: https://bit.ly/kababayankids

About the Kababayan Kids-A Pilipinx collective that provides resources and storytime for families to engage their children with Filipino culture and language. For more info: https://linktr.ee/kababayankids

About Romeo Roque-Nido-Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, his cooking was influenced early on by a diversity of cultures before being broadened further during his time as a world-traveling student with California Maritime Academy (CMA). While his culinary influences are varied (he loves Italian food!), his truest passion is the cuisine of his motherland, the Philippines. Through The Filipino Instant Pot Cookbook, Romeo hopes to preserve the rich culinary heritage of the Philippines by using modern appliances to make it more accessible to even the busiest of families. Romeo earned his engineering degree from CMA and MBA from St. Mary's College of California. Today he lives in Vallejo. California with his wife and two children.