IN PHOTOS | To culminate the Filipino Food Month Celebration, the Department of Agriculture-Central Visayas (DA7) conducted a cooking contest dubbed as DA7 Got Chef with pinakbet as the recipe.

The cooking contest was represented by divisions or eight teams, namely the Field Operation (FOD), Research, Integrated Laboratory (ILD), Engineering (RAED), Admin ang Finance (AFD), Planning and Monitoring (PMED), Regulatory, and Agribusiness and Marketing (AMAD).

Regional Executive Director Angel Enriquez, in her message, emphasized the importance of food. Pinakbet, she said is one of the dishes been considered as the recipe.

On the other hand, Regional Technical Director Wilberto Castillo, shared the cooking contest will showcase the talent of the contract of service (COS) employees, saying “this is a showdown of prowess of the Kabataang COS, cooking the pinakbet.

Aside from the cooking contest, a Filipino food trivia with a twist cum Kwarta o kahon, where the trivia winner will choose the kahon or kwarta as a prize.

The pinakbet cooking winners were AMAD as 3rd place, ILD as 2nd place and the grand winner was PMED.