10 Jun, 2011
No, this isn’t another porky post. :) Marketman is recovering from a 27-hour door to door journey to get to the U.S. east coast. These long-haul flights are definitely getting harder and harder to do as I get older. As soon as we got through the airport in a small New…
23 May, 2011
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a simple concept that allows consumers to buy local, seasonal and fresh produce directly from farmers. I have been doing it for years without knowing it had a label… :) At any rate, a couple of weeks ago, Gejo of Kitchen Herbs Farm asked if I would…
10 May, 2011
Finally! Brera Delicatessen, the retail outlet of S & L Fine Foods is now open! Located on Yakal Street, in front of their wholesale operation, Brera carries everything that S&L Fine Foods sells wholesale, with just a little mark-up in prices for retail customers. I LOVE this store because it has a…
10 May, 2011
I was back at the downtoearth stall at Salcedo market last Saturday because they had some lettuce that I wanted to try. They also brought some other produce items to sell and of course I left the table with several bags full of stuff. I am pretty sure that 98+% of readers…
05 May, 2011
Just a few doors down from Excelente ham I found this store selling freshly made hopia. It was one of several such stores, but this one just happened to have the hopia cooking almost right out on the sidewalk so I decided to buy some. At PHP6.50 each, they seemed like a…
30 Apr, 2011
You would be forgiven if you had mistakenly thought I left the Philippines to hit a fantastic western market resulting in this loot of organic broccolini, baby swiss chard, microgreens, and grass-fed beef. But the better news is that this is all locally grown, and now available at the Salcedo Market on Saturdays…
28 Apr, 2011
It’s funny how on some weekends there just seems to be so much going on foodwise. I often get asked to announce this event or that, and honestly, most of the time I decline, as the blog is typically commercial free. But if the events are things I myself have gone to,…
17 Apr, 2011
It could almost have been a scene from a James Bond movie… The stunningly vintage prop plane is what caught everyone’s eye, but no one was really dressed for the part. While waiting for our commercial flight to land at the Busuanga/Coron airport, I spied this unfolding scene on one side of the…