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I was in such a bad mood yesterday, it wasn’t funny: I bit off the heads of everyone who spoke to me; driving around in my car, I took every honk from other motorists as a direct assault on my person; even my usual 5-kilometer run failed to flood my body with feel-good endorphins. By evening, I was convinced that the world...
read moreFrench toast was probably the very first thing I ever cooked by myself. I must’ve been about 9 or 10 years old, and I was entranced with the recipe that I found in one of those kiddie cookbooks.Fast forward to adulthood. I pretty much forgot about French toast once I hit high school and college. There just wasn’t time...
read more Animal crackers and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I’m grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these. Christopher Morley - American author and journalist This is the most charming little treasure of a book that I’ve come across in a long time. A book devoted...
read more It took me a long time to get to Heaven ‘n Eggs, an all day breakfast place that everyone had been either telling or asking me about. I did make it to their first branch in Tomas Morato way back in May, but was unable to eat there when the server told me, “Ma’am, you’re next behind a party of 30. Would you...
read moreOver the weekend, I was a judge at the Century Tuna Culinary Meet. Already on its third year, the cooking contest is an opportunity for consumers to introduce new ways that canned tuna can be incorporated into any dish (except for dessert, I presume — heehee). The event was held at the indoor quad of Market! Market! It was a...
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