Specialty Coffee Cacao Combines Filipino Arabica Beans with African Roasting Technology
Volcanoes Specialty Coffee Cacao applies African technology to Philippine coffees, resulting in a unique, deeply flavored brew that also helps the indigenous communities in South Cotabato that grow it.
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From Grass to Glass: Profiting From Carabao Dairy
Carabaos as dairy animals might help augment the income of the smallholder farmer.
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Real Fresh Dairy Farm: The Importance of Quality in Philippine Dairy
Paco Magsaysay gives us tour of his dairy farm and lets us in on his secrets to running successful dairy businesses.
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The Three C’s for Dealing with the Psychically Toxic
Some people believe that moods can be contagious. While it’s common to be influenced by the mood of a person you’ve interacted with, there are folks who believe that places and inanimate objects may (accidentally or not) influence a person’s emotions as well.
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Seek Ye Whore
Students have been taking up this increasingly hard-to-find story, so I’m placing this here until my second collection comes out.
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Discovering the Philippines, One Dish at a Time
This is what happens when farmers and chefs get together: you have excellent ingredients prepared with love.
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When You or Someone You Know is Struggling with Depression
Depression is stealthy and insidious. Every day is a struggle to want to stay alive. Every act of compassion and kindness helps.
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Manila: The San Sebastian Basilica
I have always wanted to go to the Minor Basilica of San Sebastian in Quiapo ever since I found out that it is the only all-steel church in the country.
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Going Hyperlocal: Mapping Out The Food of Quiapo
What is Filipino food? To most people, it’s a group that contains adobo, sisig, and halo-halo. But as Filipinos know, it is more than that. There is food that is characterized by region, by province, by town.
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We Went Ghost Hunting Along Balete Drive and This is What We Found
Balete Drive is known as one of the most haunted streets in Metro Manila. A couple od friends and I decided to see if it was true.
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