Food

The Non-Chopsticks User’s Guide to Eating with Chopsticks By MELISSA SALVA
The Non-Chopsticks User’s Guide to Eating with Chopsticks By MELISSA SALVA
  Of course you know how to eat with chopsticks. Just use them like giant tweezers and that’s all there is to it. If you think wielding them takes up... Read more...
Revenge of the Tinola
Revenge of the Tinola
TABLE PROTOCOL AND SOUP IN RIZAL’S NOLI ME TANGEREThe Noli Me Tangere written by Jose Rizal and first published in 1887, is indisputably the greatest Filipino novel to date. Even... Read more...
The Lucky Food Diet
The Lucky Food Diet
Diet meal plans are aplenty – you may have encountered those involving nothing but cabbage soup, or those assigning only a certain kind of food per day (without any citation... Read more...
Lechon and Leftovers
Lechon and Leftovers
There are many things the Spanish colonization gave the Philippines, not all of them welcome. But the best-loved gift is Lechon. The word lechon refers to a whole pig cooked... Read more...
Undercooked
Undercooked
The first time I invited my boyfriend home for Sunday lunch, my mother made lasagna. It was coated in all the right sense of occasion: a family gathering, hospitality, sharing,... Read more...
How to Make Beef Chateaubriand
How to Make Beef Chateaubriand
1. Tie the piece of meat with butcher string using square knots. 2. Heat oven to 375*.3. Melt butter and olive oil together in a large skillet.4. Season meat with... Read more...
Roast the One You Love
Roast the One You Love
I look at the slab of red meat in front of me, the slight smell of blood still present. I massage it in several places. It feels weird even as... Read more...
Food of the Gods
Food of the Gods
Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink, the sweat of the stars, the vital seed, divine nectar, the drink of the gods, panacea and universal medicine. ~ Geronimo PiperniA laudable reputation,... Read more...
The Damnable Fruitcake
The Damnable Fruitcake
That November I was 20 years old. My mother had died just the past June. My father’s clan was spending Christmas with us because his brother was here from the... Read more...
CHOP SUEY
CHOP SUEY
Ingredients ½ kilo shrimp1 medium chicken breast½ cup chicken livers and gizzard1 cup cooked pork1 carrot, cut into thinrounds½ head of cabbage, cut in 1-inch squares or rectangulars1 kilo cauliflower,... Read more...