The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I was born two decades after World War II. I don’t remember when I first heard about World War II but I do know that much about what I knew of the 1940s came from three sources — books (both textbooks and fictional novels), movies and television, and my grandmother’s accounts. The textbook angle is ... (more)
Several weeks ago, my brother-in-law, Buddy, posted photos of vintage cameras on his Facebook wall. The photos were from an exhibit in Taal, Batangas. A week or two later, when we decided to go to Taal as part of Sam’s portfolio reconstruction, Speedy remembered Buddy’s photos and said we could go and see the exhibit. ... (more)
If you go to Taal and ask for directions to the Agoncillo heritage house, it might get a bit confusing. There is more than one Agoncillo house in Taal. This is the house of Gregorio Agoncillo whose uncle, Felipe, was the lawyer who took part in the Treaty of Paris negotiations that led to the ... (more)
I was there 25 years ago with a contingent of UP Law students that manned the barricades. We were in the night shift. I was with a paralegal quick reaction team that was directed to go to Malacañang when news filtered in that people were looting the palace. What we were supposed to do as ... (more)
Search Google with the key string “smear campaign Philippine elections” and you’ll get a list, about four pages long, of the same Agence France Presse (AFP) report by Maynardo Macaraig entitled “Internet fuels Philippine election smear campaigns.” It reads in part: Philippine politics has plunged to ugly lows ahead of next month’s presidential election as ... (more)
On Sunday evening, my daughter Alex sat down next to me in my study with Neil Gaiman’s “M Is For Magic” in her hands. Apparently, a lot of nursery rhymes were referenced in the short stories and, not being familiar with many of them, she decided it was more convenient to ask me rather than ... (more)
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com … »»
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