Gourmet goddess Beth Romualdez calls Bicol her home region. In her book Cooking Lessons, she recalls cooking "Tinutungang Manok" : It made a world of difference that the native chicken was newly slaughtered and the saba bananas (plantains) and coconuts were freshly picked. This being a traditional dish, the procedure uses a technique—burning the coconut shells—that can be difficult in a modern kitchen. While dry-toasting the grated coconut meat in a wok can be done instead, the aroma and flavors will be different.
In this excerpt from the book, “Not on Our Watch: Martial Law Really Happened. We Were There,” CNN correspondent and Beijing bureau chief Jaime “Jimi” FlorCruz recounts how he and a motley group of fellow student activists were stranded in China following a three-week tour in 1971. Fearing arrest and military reprisals, the group was forced to live in China after President Marcos first suspended the writ of habeas corpus and then declared martial law in 1972.
This coming October, I am sad to note, the Sunday Inquirer Magazine will no longer be a weekly habit but a monthly experience. It’s like the magazine will be converting from Catholic to Presbyterian and instead of receiving the body of Christ every Sunday, the honor and privilege and joyous experience will be limited only to the first Sunday of every month. Having gotten used to the weekly habit we developed in 2006 (with Alya Honasan as then editor in chief), I am having premature withdrawal symptoms. And massive flashbacks of issues past.
“Inauspicious” is the word that believers in feng shui associate with the number 4. In Chinese, the word for “four” sounds like the Chinese term for death and can therefore carry a curse.
Varsity player Marie Fe Sampaga admits the teasing still gets to her. When a player from the rival team called her “putol” (chopped) in a recent game, Sampaga recalls it took a lot of restraint for her not to hit back.
He was driving on the streets of Makati when he got the big news. At first, it didn’t sink in. So when Ignatius Michael “Mickey” Ingles got the first of incessant media calls, he didn’t sound as ecstatic as a bar topnotcher should be.
Today’s readers have much to learn from reading National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin. Ateneo Assistant Professor Jonathan Chua, who curates the upcoming exhibit on Joaquin, notes that aside from “the art of writing well,” readers will learn about Philippine history and culture from this literary icon’s works.
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In the age of the selfie, pictures are cheap. This is the age of visual overload.
If you want to go green, go Filipino. This seems to be the not-so-subliminal message within “Beyond the Bahay Kubo: 16 Climate-Conscious Tropical Homes,” a new book featuring top-shelf residences designed in the contemporary Filipino style by the father-and-son design team of Bobby and Angelo Mañosa.
