Story in Edible Boston (2021)
”Feeding Your Feelings: Adobo-Fish-Sauce Welcomes You Home”

Home could be a gallery, an auditorium, a park. Anthony Febo and Ricky Orng are cooking on stage, but the audience won’t walk away with a new recipe or technique. The dishes they make when performing as Adobo-Fish-Sauce come from their own families’ cultures, but folks aren’t there to learn about Puerto Rican or Khmer cuisine. Febo and Orng are poets, and the food is a tool to encourage vulnerability and explore identity. The moment is art.

Interview in Boston Globe (2021)
”The Questions featuring Adobo-Fish-Sauce”

Ricky Orng and Anthony Febo are Adobo-Fish-Sauce. This is their beautiful resistance. They met at an afterschool program over spoken word. Friendship at first sight — or something like it.

Over the last decade, Anthony Febo and Ricky Orng have been playing with what it means to be fed. They created a project, Adobo-Fish-Sauce, bringing together cooking and poetry. Food is how we fellowship, how we sustain, and how we live. But we also feed ourselves with love, with music, with art of all kinds.

Shout out in WBUR (2019)
”Tanám Wants To Tell The Stories Not Being Told — Through Food”

Tanám and Adobo Fish Sauce plan to join forces — details still to come. Orng and Febo won't be present, but the "challenge and the goal," Davenport says, "is to bring the intimacy of [Adobo Fish Sauce's] poetry and storytelling into our space in such a way that guests will still feel and create connections."

Story in WBUR (2019)
“Adobo-Fish-Sauce' Makes Art That Feeds Your Heart And Stomach”

The kitchen is where Febo connects with his best friend Ricky Orng. They go as Febo and Ricky, and they do a cooking and slam poetry show together. Febo is Puerto Rican, and Ricky is Cambodian. They call themselves "Adobo-Fish-Sauce," after seasonings used in their cultures' cuisines…

Interview + Feature in Visual Mag (2019)
“Issue 006 CULTURE, Define your roots and creatively express your way of life.”

The poems they bring to the stage are also reflective of their cultures and families that raised them. From talking about what is home, when generations before them lived their lives somewhere else, while they are here attempting to decipher how much of what they grew up with belongs to America vs how much of it belongs to their roots. To talking about summer barbecues, cats, and trips to IKEA…

RADIO AND PODCASTS

Interview in Hood Grown Aesthetic Podcast (2019)
Episode 70: Culture and Comfort

Hoodgrown Aesthetic tells the story of 21st-century artists of color living in Boston and abroad. Daughter of Contrast puts her uncensored spin on art news and history. Through artist and non-profit shoutouts, interviews with artists, activists, educators, and more, HoodGrown Aesthetic confronts the eurocentricity of the art world while embracing the art, work, and history of black and brown people.

Audiostory in WBUR (2019)
“Adobo-Fish-Sauce' Makes Art That Feeds Your Heart And Stomach”

They both enjoyed cooking, poetry and hanging out with each other. “We enjoy combining things,” says Febo. “I feel like it’s something that’s been true in our work, is this power of 'and,' like versus 'or.' Like you don’t have to be a visual artist or a poet or a chef — you can be all of them.”