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Badua mentioned in a KPBS podcast that while she did not grow up doing Filipino folk magic herself, she recalled an experience that allowed her to see it in action:"Our family does not, that I know of, include many folk healers, but I do remember a trip to the Philippines where we did have a local healer come and kind of help my brother out with a little bit of a stomach issue after we went swimming in the local river.
The Filipino-Indian fusion food truck narrated in the book is even inspired directly by her Pinoy roots as well as her husband's Indian-American background. "I very loosely based some of the potions on what albularyos use now, in terms like vinegar and garlic and just different things that they put into their tinctures. And a lot of the incantations are really just kind of made up for the purpose of the book. So I hope young readers don't try to replicate any of it. It is totally fictional, just sadly, just like the actual recipes of the dishes in the book," Badua said.
Badua is known for writing young adult and children's books"full of humor, magic, and young people with sunny hearts in a sometimes stormy world." The San Diego-based author's other works include
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