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Continue reading →: Marang/Tarap
Normally, it takes me the longest time before posting. But today, I am so excited that I just have to. No obsessive-compulsive researching, no editing, no carefully-taken picture – and sorry I can’t do much better – the other fruit-lovers at home got to it before I found the camera.…
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Continue reading →: Lasang Pinoy I: Ninoy Aquino Day – Round-Up
Nth edition, constantly edited When some of us thought of launching a Filipino food blogging event in the tradition of Is My Blog Burning?, all I was concerned about was the theme should be something that coincided with Philippine holidays or festivals. Since our Independence Day in June had passed, I thought…
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Continue reading →: Camaru: A Sumptuous Meal!
After a short deliberation, my co-host Stef and I decided to post the round-up for the launching of Lasang Pinoy this evening since we’re still receiving entries. In the meantime, I’ll post something which I would give Ninoy if he were alive today. After his assassination in 1983, numerous articles on Ninoy came out…
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Continue reading →: Food as Torture: Prison Memories of Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino
By Cora Castellvi (Below is an entry sent in by a Filipina-Canadian reader of her encounter with Sen. Aquino as they ate and talked about what else but food!) Ontario, Canada – IT WAS FALL, 1981. Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino was the guest speaker at a symposium organized by a…
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Continue reading →: Lasang Pinoy I: Meals in Protest Rallies
Note: revising still but comments welcome We chose to launch Lasang Pinoy, a Filipino food blogging event, on Ninoy Aquino Day to commemorate the death of our most well-known modern-day hero. Today, Filipino food bloggers and friends in many parts of the world will post their thoughts on being Filipino and the…
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Continue reading →: Anunas/Anonas: Mystery fruit of my childhood
“Come quickly, I have something special for you,” my Auntie Rita beckoned me early last year. What could she be bringing from the barrio? I was in awe, it was anunas (Annona reticulata) – a sweet, heart-shaped and red-skinned fruit related to the unaba/gunaba (guyabano) and anatis (atis) which can…
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Continue reading →: IMBB 17: Tea-Citrus Popsicles (TasteTEA)
Coffee, TEA or errmm… never mind… This month’s edition of IMBB is brought to you by Clement of A La Cuisine! What a wonderful theme for one can drink tea, season with it, boil in it and even eat it. Tea, strictly speaking, is the plant Camella sinensis which is native to China. The beverage…
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Continue reading →: Launching Lasang Pinoy on Ninoy Aquino Day
Food embodies the culture from which it developed. To know a culture, one can start with food. The past year has seen the food blogging community grow tremendously. Each month, I look forward to the Is My Blog Burning? events which reveal some facets of other cultures through their food and eating…
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Continue reading →: Pray tell…
Comments from the previous post made me realise that eating fruits with plain rice must have been a common practice a generation or two ago. I don’t know many people who still do. In our family it died with my grandmother. This habit is one of the things I did not appreciate her teaching…
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Continue reading →: The Cook Next Door
I’ve always thought that the food blogging community is close-knit. Now that it’s gotten so large, I suppose getting-to-know-you memes are in order. A meme, by the way, was a concept used in genetics and the transmission of characteristics. Someone defined it later on as the spread of ideas that…
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