This is what happens when farmers and chefs get together: you have excellent ingredients prepared with love.
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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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A Tiny Tour of San Fernando and Angeles, Pampanga
A mini food tour to a province that takes its food seriously.
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Stopping for Corn by the Side of the Road
So this happened. A couple of friends–distant cousins Ian and Toto Carandang–and I were driving home. Rather, Ian was driving and using Waze to navigate Manila’s awful traffic. The app had taken us to the bowels of Pasig. We had no idea where we were. We’re kind of sad that way. Ian and Toto were […]
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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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New Orleans: What We Ate
Part of what makes up the myth of New Orleans is its cuisine, so food was very much on our itinerary. I know that a place is more than just the few dishes that it is most known for, but since this was our first time, we wanted to try a bit of what we […]
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Baltimore: One Day in Baltimore (It was Really Two)
I visit the Baltimore Baslicia and the National Aquarium—Baltimore, plus enjoy a meal at one of the city’s best restaurants.
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Chicago: Breakfast and the Renewal of Family Ties
On bonding with cousins over breakfast.
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Food is More Than What We Eat
Is food important? The answer is obvious, but not for the reasons we think. Yes, we need food to survive. Our bodies need nourishment to give us energy to move and think. And even though it is theoretically possible to survive for a while on nothing but water (Mahatma Gandhi’s record was 21 days), it […]
Read moreNetong’s La Paz batchoy: Iloilo Comfort Food
Iloilo is known for its La Paz batchoy, a pork noodle soup filled with innards and egg noodles, topped with fried garlic, spring onion, and pork cracklings. It is believed that the dish was invented at Netong’s, located in the middle of the La Paz market. Netong’s was started in 1948 by Leonito Guillergan, whose […]
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