04 Nov, 2009
I’m not sure what gave rise to this, but the past year or two has really seen the renaissance of pork or anything porcine in nature. When the magazine Time Out New York issued its annual “100 Best Things We Ate And Drank This Year” in December 2008, and this $9 sandwich from…
02 Nov, 2009
I was anxious to use the newly arrived bounty of ingredients as soon as possible, so we invited some friends over for dinner, and decided to make a salad as a starter. Before deciding on the final roster of ingredients for the salad, we first tried out a critical pairing to see if…
01 Nov, 2009
With superb sourdough and cheeses (as well as salamis) as Part I of the food pasalubongs, how could there not be a Part II with fruit and chocolate. Mrs. MM’s luggage included several containers of black mission figs and other larger green/purple figs, all perfectly ripe by the time they arrived in Manila….
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….
29 Oct, 2009
I regularly browse through the second hand or unsold food magazines at mall stores like “Book Sale” and other shady re-retailers of books and magazines. Sometimes the stuff looks like it might have come out of someone’s garbage, other times they are unsold issues of magazines that somehow make it to the Philippines….
26 Oct, 2009
The slow but steady swell of a proverbial tidal wave of holiday activity has started in earnest at the Marketman & Family household. We have traditionally made a big deal out of Halloween, what with a kid in the house for these past 13+ years… Her first costume was the cutest ever…
25 Oct, 2009
For some reason the Japanese have really taken food (and other) packaging to incredibly lofty levels. A visit to any major Tokyo department store’s food hall is always so incredibly awe-inspiring. So it didn’t surprise me at all when I spied a very eye-catching section of pork products for sale at the…
23 Oct, 2009
The cook was trying to be healthy, for my sake. But another round of steamed white fish with a bit of soy and sesame, while delicious, wasn’t floating my boat. So I decided to try and do a quick stir-fry instead. Into a hot wok went some peanut oil, followed by…