A Measure of Benevolent Neglect

 Bunna Café, Bushwick, Brooklyn, c.a. 2017, photo by I.G.The title of this post is directly borrowed from a recent food article in The Times by Dorie Greenspan writing about (and the recipe for) a cake salé. Her prose-wording is beautiful and personal it evokes a home kitchen that’s lived in by...

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“FOODNOTE”

 On NPR Sunday radio a feature called Moth had an interesting show topic: loops — a recycling of archival music threading the end back to the beginning of its instrumentation, and the track repeats ad infinitum. The “artist-on-record” remastering the banal had a very interesting use of this loop-technique...

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The Cuisine of Mayon

A staple ingredient in this region of central Philippines is the spectacular plant food from the tree of moringa. A global phenomenon, especially among fitness/longevity/wellness seekers, this ultra-nutritious greens (as fortuitous an addition to soups, particularly) has a hidden recipe beneath this...

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Calamansi-soaked Lady Fingers Brûlée

This is a layered dessert bottom-to-top a cross-section with cinnamon-macadamia granola, broiled plantains and sweet white bread soaked in coconut-ginger pudding milk. The idea of making it was fun, not to mention the process — the goal was commitment to the ingredients and assembling them to the perfect...

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WATERCRESS CURRY LAKSA

 Although I had it afterwards in the W. Village of NYC (somewhere on Christopher St.), but the original kind and first ever for this amazing soup was tasted abroad when I visited my friend Adeline, an Australian-Chinese I met in S. Korea, now back and living in her hometown of Singapore City, and...

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