At 9 a.m., the world seems bleary pre-coffee.My coffee jar is empty this morning, so I rummage around the air-tight jar specially designated for the fragrant beans. Today, I’m grinding an Urban Tempo dark roast from Tommy’s Coffee that’s available at the Salcedo Weekend Market which incidentally, is celebrating...
read moreMy computer has died on me. No, not crashed, DIED.I’m working to get a new desktop together but it’ll take time and how long I don’t know. Thus, I’ve got (grossly) limited technological capability, working as I am now on my laptop which doesn’t have even a smidgen of the monstrous power that my...
read moreGiving in yields to a pleasant discovery.My friend Franco’s wife is pregnant and he’s shown astonishing deference to his wife’s current eating habits. One day, we’re tossing around restaurant names to visit for lunch. “I want something spicy. Let’s do Peri-Peri or Hossein’s,” I say....
read more2 o’clock in the afternoon signals the beginning of a pleasurable pause.The last time I met Bizu co-owner, Audrey Tanco, was back in 2005 so a recent chance meeting at a restaurant spurred us to get together again. And just like the last time, we get together for tea.At Bizu’s Greenbelt branch, Audrey is...
read moreLook around. See something different? Okay, A LOT different.Last Saturday May 2, 2009, Dessert Comes First turned 4 years old. And looking at the calendar, how apropos that I’m writing this post on the 4th of May. It’s been 4 years since that rainy and dark afternoon when I holed myself up in my library and lit a...
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