01 Nov, 2009
Family, friends and business colleagues have always been amazed by the contents of our luggage when we return from local or foreign trips. I once ran into a professional acquaintance of mine at the Singapore airport (she transiting from Kazakhstan or somewhere equally unusual) and me on the the way home from Melbourne….
27 Oct, 2009
I was at the Banilad Town Center for the Sunday market. The week before, the crew had sold out of 3 lechons, so this time around, after a full-page article in the Sun Star on Saturday, we figured that bringing 5 whole lechons or roughly 90+ kilos worth would be sufficient to meet…
14 Oct, 2009
“Bago”. Huh?! That’s the answer to my question posed in Cebuano asking what these young, vibrant green leaves were. I thought she meant they were young leaves. But apparently they were called bago, as in the type of tree. Apparently used as a slight souring agent for soups, like nilangang…
07 Oct, 2009
To market, to market to buy a fat pig (or two, or three)… I don’t think I have ever been to a livestock market, and with our recent need to identify more and more sources of more traditionally raised pigs for the ZUBUCHON experiment, we decided to plan a half-day trip to the Mantalongon…
02 Oct, 2009
The selection of heirloom or other unusual varieties of tomatoes at the Union Square Market in mid-September was just utterly amazing. This pre-occupation with growing such a wide variety or selection of tomatoes is something that seems to have taken hold only in the last 10 years or so. I read with…
30 Sep, 2009
More vibrant color, more appetizing produce from a recent visit to the Union Square Market in New York. Above, a cheerful abundance of cosmos…
29 Sep, 2009
The Union Square market in Manhattan recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and I realized that I have been visiting the market for just as long! I used to live and work in New York in the late 1980’s and I would take the subway down to the market, load up on goodies and…
21 Sep, 2009
We were driving almost haphazardly through Northern New England, and you might have spotted us anywhere from the Maine coast to the mountains in Vermont. We stopped at this Saturday market, which I suspect is one of many similar farmer’s markets in large towns all throughout Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It…