MTV Pinoy Embarks On The 2016 MTV VJ Hunt
The MTV VJ Hunt is back! The world’s favorite music channel is looking for the hottest, unique, and most interesting personalities to join the growing MTV Pinoy VJ fam! Open to
August 11, 2016
The MTV VJ Hunt is back! The world’s favorite music channel is looking for the hottest, unique, and most interesting personalities to join the growing MTV Pinoy VJ fam! Open to
The Sydney Opera House is set to undergo a multi-million-dollar overhaul, with an emphasis on improving its acoustics, once described as worse than an aircraft hangar, officials said Thursday.
Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach just posted a video tutorial of her everyday makeup look on the pageant’s official Facebook account.
We may have been having rainy weather these past few days, but tonight we’ll be having a different kind of shower, as the Perseid meteor shower will pass through our
Two rare one-cent coins from the earliest days of the U.S. Mint have sold for a pretty penny.
By Teresa Naval In early July, Elite Daily called ube the “new matcha.” The two are fundamentally different food: one is powdered green tea with roots in Chinese and Japanese
In early July, Elite Daily called ube the “new matcha.” The two are fundamentally different food: one is powdered green tea with roots in Chinese and Japanese tea ceremonies, the other is purple yam (often sweetened and turned into a jam) native to Southast Asia.
Both have been culinary staples for thousands of years, but I guess not exactly—not until they were discovered by the Western world and deemed the next trendy ingredient. Did ube truly matter before Elite Daily was “looking to add a pop of color to [their] dull food porn posts?”
There’s nothing inherently wrong with ube—or matcha, or hummus, or curry—becoming more embraced in other parts of the world. Good food is good food, after all. Things become trickier when identities become conflated with a singular “exotic” dish, or when the best (and most expensive) “authentic” restaurants are managed by white chefs who spent a summer in the jungles of [insert “exotic” locale], bonded with the kind-hearted natives and wanted to translate their earth-shattering consumption of cuisine and culture to the plate. Bell hooks writes in Eating the Other: “[i]n many ways, it is a contemporary revival of interest in the ‘primitive,’ with a distinctly postmodern slant.”
Some of you are lucky, but most of us have experienced growing up under strict parents that overreact to relatively minor offenses. If you didn’t get to have formative years where fear
THE PIG & Palm, Jason Atherton’s first restaurant in the Philippines, opens in Cebu, hometown of the British culinary star’s wife
My daily routine allows me to visit our Wooden Spoon outlets in Pasig and Rockwell. I go there every day, unless I have a taping scheduled for my TV show “Foodprints.” That’s when I usually take off for five days to eat and recommend new food discoveries in the provinces or abroad.
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