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20 Jul, 2010
It started with a simple idea — a desire to help undernourished public school children — and marketmanila.com readers have responded with such incredible warmth and generosity. From that little spark of an idea some 3 years ago, the marketmanila.com feeding program has raised in excess of PHP1.5 million and provided some 75,000+…
19 Jul, 2010
Mamou is doing it again. For the third year in a row, all proceeds from their restaurant at Serendra this Wednesday, July 21 will be donated to the marketmanila.com feeding program at the Tenement School in Taguig, Metro Manila! Mamou has been a wonderful partner and extremely generous donor to the feeding…
18 Jul, 2010
Several readers, including a foodie relative, suggested La Barraca for paella in Madrid. When we asked the concierge at our hotel where to get the best paella in town, he said “La Barraca” without hesitation. So we made reservations early one morning, and were thinking about paella the entire day, saving up…
12 Jul, 2010
The world’s oldest restaurant. Goya worked as a waiter there. Their famous cochinillo asado or roast suckling pig was mentioned in Ernest Hemingway’s book The Sun Also Rises. Yipes. That’s a pretty impressive pedigree to live up to. Simply surviving 285 years of operations should be awe inspiring! Located just…
10 Jul, 2010
Manhattan. Madrid. Marrakech. This was the MM family Summer Holiday 2010 itinerary. After an uneventful flight from New York to Madrid, we cleared customs in the early morning hours and made a beeline for our hotel downtown. The Palace Hotel would be our home for the next week or so, and…
25 Jun, 2010
My grandfather was a sharp dresser. He would go to court or his law office in off-white linen suits and a hat, and when he came home for his lunch and “siesta” he would pen notes in flowing handwriting at his desk, using one of several incredible fountain pens. See Lolo’s penmanship in…
29 Mar, 2010
Holy Guacamole! Why do I manage to get what seems like much more than my fair share of these image-napping, intellectual property rights thievery, blatantly stupid, ridiculously outrageous situations than most folks I know? Does some supreme being decide the fates and send me a greater number of these situations precisely so…
31 Oct, 2009
A Christmas Tree Farm near the Canadian border… I knew there was a good reason to take these snapshots of these rows and rows of pine trees last Spring when we were in New Hampshire and took time to visit a maple syrup farm, here. For the past few years, we have…