Comments on: What Am I Reading? https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: RoBStaR https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133323 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:39:03 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133323 MM,
i actually found both books from amazon.com… the recipes of the philippines is a used book datign 1965. who knew amazon would have it.

]]> By: RoBStaR https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133321 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:32:45 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133321 Thank you… much appreciated.

]]> By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133289 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:09:12 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133289 Robstar, do you have the tiny paperback book “Recipes of the Philippines” by Enriqueta David-Perez? It isn’t very well written and it assumes you know what you are cooking, but it covers all the comfort foods and older recipes that you may be looking for. I find the instructions lacking but if you are a decent cook, you will figure them out. If you are based in the U.S., Memories of Philippine Kitchens by the folks who own Cendrillon is worth looking at. Actually, I did a review of that book, its in my archives… Grace, I haven’t tried to cook from that book yet…

]]> By: Grace https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133271 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:31:06 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133271 About the Cracking Coconut, I hope you get to post the result of your cooking based on this book. Thanks.

]]> By: RoBStaR https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133248 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:28:02 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133248 MM,
Can you recommend a good filipino cookbook? more on the traditional dishes rather than modern.
I have the philippine cookbook by Reynaldo Alejandro.But other than that, am quite limited in my choices.
thanks.

]]> By: Lia Valera https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133081 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:48:38 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-133081 Very interesting bedside reading, MM. As a chef, I keep most of my cookbooks in the kitchen (for quick reference, maybe). To read before I snooze at night, I go for culinary fiction. At the moment, I switch from “The Banquet Bug” by Geling Yan -about a poor factory worker in Beijing who gatecrashes his way through corporate-sponsored banquets by posing as a journalist; and “The Book of Salt” by Monique Truong – a fascinating novel about the brief Parisian life of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas as seen through the eyes of their Vietnamese chef de cuisine.

Many thanks indeed for the Pilipino translation of meatcuts. I hope somebody posts a translation of fish and seafood as well.

]]> By: dragon https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132669 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:47:06 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132669 You’re both welcome MM & ragamuffin–to complicate matters even more, here in Melbourne, meat cuts are termed differently from US terminology. Plus: measurements are bigger (cup equivalents). So when I’m shopping or cooking, I have my meat charts (conversions), calculator, etc. and the kitchen begins to look more like a chem lab….

]]> By: estella https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132639 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:44:15 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132639 i do also have that book authored by alice waters. we used to go to chez panisse in the 80’s when we lived in berkeley while my husband was studying in uc berkeley. another restaurant that i missed there is the fat apples…

]]> By: rose https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132591 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:39:20 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132591 can’t help not share my favorite book about food… FoodTrip by claude tayag……i love how he describes his food finds and adventures!…. same as Marketmanila.

]]> By: sister https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132561 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:46:17 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/what-am-i-reading#comment-132561 You have more books coming in the next box, I just got through a number of them and am passing them on to you who has more shelf space! No, I’m not going to challenge Bubby’s, I told them I would leave the choice of pie to them.

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