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Last Sunday I went to Carbon Market. It’s called Carbon because the huge pile of Carbon or Uling for the old power plant used to be stored in this area. To this day, the Ludo warehouse for…
After going through the debacle of re-naming the international airport in Mactan to honor Lapu-lapu, the stalwart local chief who vanquished the conquistador Fernando Magallanes, there is now a bill in Congress renaming the Lapu-lapu fish…
Plastic is getting a lot of flack all over the world for polluting our oceans and over-filling our landfills, the world nowadays is awash in plastic. Everything seems to be wrapped or contained in plastic, the worst…
On a recent trip to the southern parishes of Cebu, my colleagues in the Archdiocesan Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church, were the happy recipients of the largesse of the hospitality of all the parish…
Before the advent of fast foods , the only refuge for a hungry Filipino who is in need of immediate sustenance that is affordable and ready to eat is the carenderia. A common sight in almost every…
WHO can tell me where the word “Binignit” comes from? It is that sweet and creamy concoction we love to eat for “painit” (warm snack) on a cold rainy day or even on a sweltering afternoon. This…
RICE is an integral part of our cuisine. It has always been our staple food, along with millet. It was much later when Cebuanos learned to eat corn. There are two basic varieties of rice, the glutinous…
AN OLD Cebuano joke goes, “Of all the bananas in the world, Saging is the best!” Cebuanos—or Filipinos, for that matter—love bananas or “saging,” be it the cooking or eating kind. There are over 1,000 varieties of…
LAST week, I had the privilege to judge in a cook fest in the town of Argao. A happy confluence of passion and common interest to preserve old recipes, the event was called “Dapugan sa Panahon.” The…
THE PROVINCE of Cebu is surrounded by bountiful, beautiful sea. It’s no wonder that Cebuanos are a picky when it comes to selecting fish for consumption. They usually don’t prefer freshwater fishes since a myriad choices from…
BESIDES Inasal or lechon, Cebu is known for its pusô. “Hanging rice,” it is also called, usually by non-Cebuanos. But what is pusô really? Basically, it is cooked rice packed in a woven coconut leaf that looks…
GROWING up on a farm exposed me to food that city folks would refer to as “exotic.” Our vegetable dishes always had the aromatic “sangig” or Lemon Basil. We had chicken tinola with fresh green papaya slices…
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