This week (and next)!

Saturday, Jan 26
KAMALAYANG MUSIKA: an evening of Filipino music and
cultural expressions for change
Saturday, January 26, 2008 @ Bayanihan Community
Center 1010 Mission St. Suite B, San Francisco CA
94103 (near civic center BART)
Doors open 6pm, performances 630-930pm
Tickets: $12 youth/senior, $14 pre-event, $15-$35 at
the door
Reserve tickets: info@facessolidarit y.org, or call
925-285-4977
The Filipino/American Coalition for Environmental
Solidarity (FACES) hosts “Kamalayang Musika” [...]

eau de chocolat

I love perfume and I’ve never had the luxury of owning a bottle of perfume, only eau de cologne or eau de parfum. Watered down versions of scent. Or should I say, alcohol-ed versions.
Alcohol is a volatile substance, serving as the vehicle for smell. When we spritz some cologne, one waits for the alcohol to [...]

milk chocolate and chocolate and zucchini

what a mouthful.
2 of my present faves:

milk chocolate brownies
This is one of my most favorite recipes. For Christmas, I gave all my family and friends bags of caramel filled chocolates. I went crazy at Spun Sugar in Berkeley and bought chocolate candy molds and 10lbs of dark and milk chocolate. Lemme tell you, candy making [...]

If you were re-routed through West Oakland via West Grand Avenue soon after the collapse of the MacArthur Maze you may have seen posters stating “Welcome Thru West Oakland” and “Enjoy Our 53 Liquor Stores”. This witty street humor took advantage of the heightened traffic along West Grand Ave to point out a critical and [...]

biracial yet nonintegrated cookies

is it black or white?
when i was working at my bakery on the weekend of mlk holiday, i had a conversation i had never thought i’d ever have at a bakery:
said customer: do you sell a lot of these cookies during mlk weekend?
me: i don’t know. maybe? but you know, these cookies are not really [...]

social justice to go

granola
re-dedicated for m.
no you wont be naming no buildings after me that go down dilapidated… surely.
~erykah badu
 
 
 
scurrying lights fill the city’s night
with dots of illumination
is this a just representation
of our nation?
or merely sublimination
of a city
on the brink of eternal extermination?
national
city, city
of nations
filipinas, chicanos, blacks
whites all trying to fight
against the dying of [...]

what david choe ate at a tokyo prison:

summer’s melting like ice cream

berry rainbow + water = yummy shake

slow food movement

another book on the shelf

slow food: philippine culinary traditions
erlinda enriquez panillo, felice prudente sta. maria (editors)
anvil press, 2005.
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Living the slow life with food as the focus is as rewarding as it is easy, and it can be done daily by each one of us. Living the slow life can also be done with others, because [...]

chew on this

“What one puts into the mouth is the end result of a process that starts with the sea, the soil, animal life. In the act of cooking, we make statements about ourselves — and about our understanding of relationships between ingredients; about our perception of taste and appropriateness. In the act of eating, we ingest [...]