For a few days every month, I become a salt slave. I hunger for salt, salt, and more salt. I eat green mangoes with bagoong (salted shrimp paste) and sprinkle them with rock salt. I hoard bags of sampaloc (tamarind), the saltier the better, sucking on them while I’m driving. And I prefer salty chocolates like Hershey’s...
read moreIt seems that I have a chocolate godsister who plies me with chocolate and keeps my sugar coffers a-brimming. Aside from those who know that I know her, she will forever remain nameless in this blog, for obvious reasons. She’s the one who gave me the Royce’ milk chocolates which I featured a few weeks ago. On a recent...
read moreDinti Guanio was the first to respond when I sounded the call for home bakers who wanted to be featured on this site. That call will always be an open invitation for those who want to get their name out in the home baking business. Dinti fits the profile of the characteristic home baker: she’s been baking since she was young,...
read moreJust a few of Marketman’s fans Market Manila is what I call a ‘one stop shop’ for everything anyone needs (and wants!) to know about Filipino food: write-ups of individual ingredients as well as where to get them. For Filipinos living abroad, I imagine that Market Manila makes them reminisce (and hunger!) for food...
read moreTHIS RESTAURANT IS NOW CLOSED.Teak at Rockwell used to be a bar owned by Beaver Lopez. It’s still owned by him, but it’s recently been renovated into a bistro and restaurant. Expectedly, the lighting has been cranked up considerably, and what used to be the bar is now a large see-through “holding room” for...
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