Is the Diary of Anne Frank Still Being Read and Taught?
Growing up in Chicago, thankfully, there are relatively few memorials to wars and military action as had taken place on that very ground – though there are many tributes to Continue reading
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Halo-halo, mix-mix and dreaming of summer
It’s damn near the kitchen sink of delicious things you can find in the PI.
Tokyo, Japan: Waiting in Line for Mass Transit
The funny thing about traveling to other countries, to paraphrase what the character Vincent Vega tells Jules Winnfield in director Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Pulp Fiction, is noticing the little differences: Search and Continue reading
Cherry Blossoms, Washington DC
I said that mid-March to early April was the best time to see the famed cherry blossoms in our nation’s capitol, Washington DC. Perhaps that would be for a typical spring. Yet this sequestered spring’s unusually cold temperatures held an unforgiving grip into April, until a few days ago.
Chess explained, Centre Pompidou, Paris
I confessed that I didn’t know a lick about the game, other than how the pieces moved and their names, and then asked Joey if he wouldn’t mind explaining chess to me while we watched the match. Chess, he said – well, whispered – is all about playing to an end game.
Balut, a new kind of Easter egg
Can I ask some fun-loving Filipino or Filipino American parents, in the spirit of tomorrow’s April Fools’ Day, to please hide a lavender- or pink-dyed balut in their Easter egg hunts today?
Filipino food, is this a thing now?
Take a look at this interesting graphic pulled from the pages of none other than Travel & Leisure’s April 2013 issue, AKA “The Food Issue”…. On a scale of Overhyped Continue reading
Pie and Pi on 3/14: Hoosier Mama Pie Cafe, 1618-½ W. Chicago Avenue
“Really to make a good pie, you have to make it by hand. You can’t use a sheeter [mechanized dough roller often used in mass production baking] because to be Continue reading
