Comments on: An Interesting Article By Ruth Reichl…

By: traci

traci — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:29:22 +0000

Hi MM, I’ve seen the Cook’s Illustrated magazines at Book Sale go down to P35 an issue in the past year. I miss Gourmet also. Through my late dad I have issues from the 70s. Great buy!

By: Firechef

Firechef — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 02:53:55 +0000

@ Cora: I have used LBC to ship boxes for many years, now they are $70 to the Visayas, $60 to Luzon. NEVER any problems, also door to door service. 6 weeks to Manila area, 7 – 8 weeks to Cebu.

By: Cora

Cora — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:16:41 +0000

Sister,
I’m sorry about your Road Runner experience. Taus pusong pasalamat po sa inyo MM and Sister for the information at higit sa lahat for your kindred generosity of spirit. I learned about door to door cargo service to the Phils. from this blog. Have been very grateful that Google took me here. Enjoyed MM’s rant the most because I don’t feel like an oddball about decency and common sense. Thank you once again.

By: Reggie Rullan

Reggie Rullan — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:12:33 +0000

Hi. Please enlighten me what kind of citrus fruits were crossed to breed calamansi? Thanks!

By: Cathy

Cathy — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:33:34 +0000

Thank you for putting this up! I don’t have access to any of these magazines except online. I am a huge fan of Michael Pollan, and I have tried his recipe for Sour Dough Bread (with great results) and Samin’s (his teacher) Soffrito, to less than amazing results, I always burn the vegetables.

I am lucky that in Germany, most people have made the correlation and people who think like this are in the mainstream already.

By: Getter Dragon 1

Getter Dragon 1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:54:22 +0000

No worries Sister and I have your bases covered. I texted one of my alumni attending UCD if he can get info onthe show. He thinks I’m crazy, but what do kids know. Your cousin is absolutely correct about the local lore and that banana trees (minus the bananas) are ornamental and functional to many households.

By: Sister

Sister — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:52:50 +0000

Cora,
I use Johnny Sea Cargo based in Queens but they have an outlet in Manhattan. They pick up boxes and they are notoriously inefficient at scheduling but they have delivered all the boxes I have sent in 6 to 8 weeks for $59. a box to Metro Manila, very inexpensive for door to door service, and very honest, I’ve used them for 10 years.
If you need to rush a small package they do air freight at half the cost of Fedex and they remit money as well.
I used Road Runner before them and one Christmas they ran off with 3 boxes with very expensive contents, gifts for my family for the holidays, not just jam. They simply disappeared but not before cashing my check. I am mentioning this in case others were affected as well.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:01:31 +0000

Re workers in the food chain. It’s very true many employers pay more attention to their margins than their people. But I think this is an issue that goes all the way up to the top of the supply chain, including mall fees that impact the total costing and valuation.

It’s also not limited to food industry, the closest example I could think of being the garments industry where costing is “top down” based on buyer terms.

There are just so many factors that go into this (and this is probably going off topic already). If you are a supplier, a lot depends on whether or not your buyers pay you on fair credit terms, if they pay you at all. I know a so-called entrepreneur advocate whose family (and their group of companies) are notorious for stiffing their suppliers.
And still another local restaurant (with culinary school) who unreasonably delayed payments but ended up paying the suppliers in GCs from their own outlet.

By: Cora

Cora — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:31:26 +0000

Hi MM,
Can I please have the name of your trusted freight company for the balikbayan box. It’ll be from Brooklyn, NY to Pasig. My hearfelt thank you for your generosity of spirit.

By: besYS

besYS — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:52:45 +0000

Hi MM,
I have the dwarft Meyer Lemon, planted in a big clay pot. I love the fruit, its flowers are so mabango! We also have 2 orange and 1 Tangerine trees. Instant orange juice everyday!
There’s a lot of varieties available in some farmer’s market here in CA.
I am just wondering why americans like to use our calamansi ( calamondin) when they are too yellow or too ripe na! I like it when they are still green- ang sarap sa pansit! ;-)