My Bacolod of Sights, Sounds, Smells
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She thought her Philippine hometown was nothing to brag about, until from California, on the phone with mother, she heard Bacolod’s rain again.
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The Happy Home Cook: Cantaloupe Strings-Calamansi Dessert Drink
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As the scorching summer days descend on us, you can't go wrong with this refreshing Cantaloupe Strings -Calamansi dessert drink.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Ginataang Mais
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This is my favorite merienda during tapings. Caterers don't seem to run out of this classic Filipino snack.
Read MoreMy Lolo’s House
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The author remembers a crowded multifamily home, where fertility was never a problem.
Read MoreDear Satu: Letters Tell the Story of Our Lives
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For 40 years, a note from my pen pal could make my day. At last I met the woman behind the words.
Read MoreThe Timeless Nora Aunor
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The sudden rise, eventual fall and rebirth of an enduring star of stage and film, and ultimate survivor.
Read MoreProudly PWU
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The nearly hundred-year-old educational institution, Philippine Women’s University, is already building the scaffolding for another hundred years.
Read MoreIn Search of the Cupang I Used to Know
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They say you can never go home again, but writer Ed Maranan has kept going back to his hometown of Cupang, Batangas since the 1950s.
Read MoreThe Happy Home Cook: Vegan Filipino Chicharon
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Vegan Filipino Chicharon is a fun little snack that has dried shiitake mushrooms coated in rice flour and sweet rice flour then deep-fried. Another way to make it is by deep-frying dried yuba skin.
Read MoreThe Wacky 1978 Chess World Championship
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How the Conjugal Dictatorship’s international public relations baby, the 1978 World Championship in Baguio, turned into an opera bouffe—with a lot of logistical, pre-match posturing and chess rivals Korchnoi and Karpov trying to rattle each other.
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