oooh the silence of a family

this is not to say that we haven't been eating. it's just that probably the patriarch is too busy to keep updating.
there's the new Sala Bistro at Greenbelt 5 to be discussed.

but more than anything else, just some space to devote to Michael Tan because really when he talks about anything, it helps to listen.

Heritage Foods
by Michael Tan

One of the things I dread most when I have to travel out of Manila is the lack of good food. I’m not talking here about gourmet delicacies and fine dining, but home-cooked food, hearty, healthy and heritage.

Heritage? For weeks now I’d been intending to write about the disappearance of local foods and then, just last Tuesday while I was listening to the US National Public Radio (NPR), there was a short feature on how Americans are trying to preserve what they call heritage foods, which includes the grass-fed bison, free-range chickens and the Tennessee fainting goat (that’s the name, derived from the way the goat tends to faint after strenuous physical activity).

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oh, and we're trying a new system for going to the supermarket and creating menus. one of the categories for the supermarket list is FOR THE HEART which really just means food which makes us happy. the mainstays for the past couple of weeks were keebler's soft batch and fig newtons. this week, i wrote in ice cream and really fabulous dark chocolate.

what makes your family happy? what makes you sit around a table just a little longer?

also, kuya tae face will premiere his movie this saturday, 17 May at 7 PM at the MAY ARTS FESTIVAL at the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute
click here for more information and here to get there. naks teleportation!

and yes, kuya tae face is JAVI abola. some version of the kuya that only these film people know. bueno.

and if you didn't know, mikey is billy b on 105.9 underground radio from 5 to 8 pm. galing.