The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Last Friday, we had pizza delivered at home. When I placed the order over the telephone, I specifically asked for change for a thousand pesos. When the delivery guy arrived, he had no change with him. Sam had the exact amount and offered to pay. I replaced the one thousand peso bill inside the right ... (more)
Last Tuesday’s and today’s columns were a two-part essay on poverty; in particular, an attempt to understand its origin from an anthropological context, vis a vis the role of government in the development of poverty. Tuesday‘s column: Poverty and private property Poverty is not a modern-day phenomenon. Of course, that is not the same as ... (more)
(Last Thursday’s column. Blog Action Day calls it a “must read article on the complexities of poverty.” Thank you. Two more articles on poverty will be published next week — I’ve already submitted them.) On Oct. 15, Blog Action Day hopes to repeat the success of last year’s initiative to get people and media talking ... (more)
This entry consists of two parts. The first part is my column today in Manila Standard Today; the second is the full text of an e-mail forwarded by my brother-in-law, Buddy. First, the column. Conversation with the househelp WOW Philippines describes the province of Zamboanga Sibugay as “blessed with an impressive range of excellent tourist ... (more)
The media is still at it — predicting the worst for Asia due to escalating price of food. If words aren’t enough to describe the rise in poverty, these figures might help. The number of Filipinos living on just a dollar a day rose from 23.8 million in 2003 to 27.6 million in 2006, according ... (more)
The government says there will be no rice shortage but food prices will be higher. Isn’t that ironic? What with people do with the “sufficient” rice supply if they can’t afford to buy? World Food Programme country director Valerie Guarnieri is right: “…there’s a possibility that the government would have to feed more people because ... (more)
From the Financial Times: The Philippines’ poverty rate has risen for the first time since the Asian financial crisis, according to a new government report that deals a blow to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s plans to halve the ranks of the country’s poor. At the rate that the poor reproduce, and I’m talking about non-stop child ... (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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