30 Sep, 2007
I typically love the still lifes of produce that I shoot after a visit to the Herbana Farms stall at the Salcedo Market on Saturdays. Their selection of produce is unusual and the vegetables and herbs always look so genuine… Yesterday was no exception and my haul included several bunches of organically…
30 Sep, 2007
“Tita” Cely Kalaw must certainly qualify as one of the icons of Filipino food and cooking. At 69, still a “Miss” and as spry and energetic as someone half her age, she is an absolute joy to behold. She was mentioned in this blog early on when I featured Bicol Express and…
29 Sep, 2007
We just got back from the movie “No Reservations” with Catherine Zeta Jones… I enjoyed it immensely and it was the perfect antidote to a very, very busy (exhausting) week. The last time there was a food related movie in town, Ratatouille, a reader likened me to Anton Ego, and I must say,…
28 Sep, 2007
I did a quick blurb on Marta’s Cakes, the new store of Marta Matute at Serendra, a day after it opened. I had never met Marta before, and she had no clue who I was. I promised myself I would return to the shop a month or so later to give them…
27 Sep, 2007
Here is the second sago post, originally dated July 2005. Sago is apparently NOT tapioca. Sago is apparently NOT tapioca. That is not a typo, I did that on purpose. I am just so used to seeing sago translated as tapioca in menus, recipe books, etc. that I assumed it must…
27 Sep, 2007
This post dates from July 2005, and decided to post it again today as I am very busy and in transit, thus unable to write something new. I am feeling like something sweet and sago-ey so I will post two desserts in a row with sago… yum. Enjoy! We had…
26 Sep, 2007
Just over a half hour drive out of Laoag, and past increasingly beautiful and less populated vistas of the South China Sea, one comes up to the Cape Bojeador lighthouse sitting up on a hill. A quick ascent in our car and a few dozen steps got us to the base of this…
25 Sep, 2007
I was simply stunned and overwhelmed by the reader response to this earlier post on Marketmanila t-shirts. It isn’t often I get 160+ comments on a post so seemingly innocuous in nature. I was even more stunned when Lee, a regular reader and commenter from Bacolod, sent these totally unsolicited and amazingly…