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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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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The Time I Spent Three Hours in Traffic Trying to Get My Mom to the ER
Manila traffic is an everyday inconvenience that, given the wrong circumstance, can be dangerous.
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Interview: What My Uber Driver Used to Have for Breakfast
What Uber driver used to have for breakfast in the province makes me hungry.
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As a Depressive, ‘Just Okay’ is a Good Thing
As a depressive, being ‘just okay’ for me means being fine, and that’s a good thing.
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Ode to the Breakfast Buffet
Ah, the breakfast buffet. That glorious parade of table upon table (upon table, if you’re lucky), each one brimming with different sorts of edibles, each one more mouth-watering than the next. It is one of the best things to greet you first thing in the morning, next to, well, next to nothing, really. Besides the […]
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Chicago: Breakfast and the Renewal of Family Ties
On bonding with cousins over breakfast.
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A Short, Incomplete Introduction to Gender Sensitivity
Gender sensitivity is a term that gets thrown around a lot. But what does it really mean to be politically correct?
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