This is not a food book,” writes coauthor Marian Pastor Roces in her own separate introduction to “A Delicate Balance: Batanes Food, Ecology and Community,” out this month from Muskkat (Museo ng Kaalamang Katutubo), available online and through Muskkat itself.
In early 2000, big luck came my way in the person of Ben Chan, of the retail giant Bench. I had never met Mr. Chan, or so I thought. One day, out of the blue, he asked his advertising promotions director, Jojo Llamzon, to phone me about doing a book for him.
Old gives you the right to be cranky, bitchy, bossy, looney–after all, who’s gonna get back at a lame old dame!
While breaking open and consuming mangosteen this morning, I remembered what Cora Alvina used to say about the “junk” that fruits generate, some more than others. For instance, one kilo of mangosteen produces a pile of thick purple peels so disproportionate to the seeds one has consumed.
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