The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an entry at the Food Talk Community about Gwyneth Paltrow’s upcoming cookbook. A writer from Vogue magazine interviewed her, cooked with her, was amazed at her knife skills but wondered why she made the mistake of using pasta flour for making pizza crust. Now, I’ve seen her website, ... (more)
When I was in UP Law and the People Power happened, Gringo Honasan became a household name and an object of curiosity. A friend and classmate who lived most of her life in Fort Bonifacio (her father was a general in the armed forces and this was before Fort Bonifacio became the trendy Global City) ... (more)
I received a forwarded e-mail about a study that links breast cancer with prolonged wearing of bra. My antennae went up immediately. But since I’m not in the habit of re-forwarding forwarded information without doing my own sluething, I did a background check. It appears that there is a book called Dressed to Kill: The ... (more)
Every spouse knows that mutual support is a huge factor in any successful marriage. And I’m not just talking about financial support — I’m talking about emotional, mental, professional and even spiritual support, in whatever context you want to put it. But when a husband loses his chance — again — to fulfill a long-standing ... (more)
In a television commercial, an attractive young woman calls out “Darling” to the out-of-focus image of a man in the crowd. She runs to him, he picks her up, she tells him she missed him and he says the same to her. The camera focuses on his face which, in wry Filipino humor, would be ... (more)
So, I missed the live telecast of the 81st Academy Awards. I had to work, what can I say? It would have been nice to say, “Play now, work later” but newspapers don’t move their deadlines so that columnists can watch TV before writing their articles. But within a minute after hitting the “Send” button, ... (more)
Some twenty years ago, the 20-year-old daughter of a distant relation left for the United States with her fiancé who was more than thirty years her senior. We didn’t even know she was engaged until her mother came over afterward to gush about her daughter’s good fortune. She was marrying a very wealthy man, she ... (more)
I’m reading Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for the second time. The date on the flyleaf of the book says I bought it when I was 15 years old and I must have read it not too long after I bought it. When you buy books out of your school allowance, you tend to buy one ... (more)
We have BBC in our Dream satellite subscription but I have never seen the “Harry and Paul” show. In fact, I’ve never heard of Henry Enfield until today and only because the show has the become the subject of an official protest by the Philippine government. The scene, first broadcast on 26 September, was part ... (more)
That’s Christine Keeler in the photo. If you haven’t heard of her before, modern history credits (or discredits) her for bringing down the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963. A woman brought down a government? It’s a matter of perspective, of course. Keeler had an affair with John Profumo, the British ... (more)
(Today’s column) Iconic women (iconic for the right or wrong reasons) have been on the news lately. After Hillary Clinton lost her shot at the Democratic nomination and the chance to become the first woman president of the United States, another woman rose to prominence. Sarah Palin has become a household name and she just ... (more)
While watching the trailer of the film “Mamma Mia!” on television a couple of nights ago, there ensued a discussion as to whether the lead star is one of the three witches in the now-defunct TV series “Charmed.” My older daughter Sam said that wasn’t her. Rather, she’s one of the girls in the supporting ... (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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