19 Sep, 2008
Despite the thousands of food posts on this blog, I have to say I am not the most adventurous of eaters. I don’t try things simply because they are there. I veer to rather conservative choices when ordering in new places, but I have increasingly been willing to try and taste new…
18 Sep, 2008
With the last lechon (Round # 4), or Accuchon, rating an 8.75/10.0, any improvements from thereon in would be incremental, and relatively tiny. In fact, with serious experimentation, ratings could certainly fall lower than previous attempts. But no guts, no glory, right? So here is the post on Lechon #5. I…
18 Sep, 2008
How could I resist purchasing and carting home oodles and oodles of dried fruits and nuts from the Turkish markets? They looked so scrumptious, fresh, and were 1/4th the price of less appealing cousins available in Manila. We came home with several kilos of vacuum packed nuts such as walnuts, pistachios, almonds,…
17 Sep, 2008
No, this post isn’t about the Italian restaurant at Serendra. Not even about the more famous little Italian pizzaria/restaurant from the Upper East Side in New York or its cousin in Vail(?), Colorado. It’s about the actual tool, a half moon shaped cutting implement/blade/knife known as a Mezzaluna. When you have…
17 Sep, 2008
I thought I had closed off the Mad Crowd Media rant with this follow-up post, but I received an email from Nestle yesterday and thought I should post it to give everyone air time as it were…
17 Sep, 2008
It’s been almost a year since I have done a post, or two, on books by my bedside. Here is one of the taller piles on the floor by my side of the bed at the moment…
16 Sep, 2008
I know, I know, pork gets your heart pumping but your arteries clogging. I just took a quick look at the posts of the last 10 days and they were chock full of piggy posts. But the reality is really more like this typical lunch that I consume while on a “diet”….
15 Sep, 2008
If you had the curiosity and idle time to read my rant last week entitled, “Mad Crowd Media, Don’t Piss Me Off,” and the nearly 100 reader comments it has since generated (including a response from one of the principals of MCM), then you might be interested in this concluding post, with an email…