Category Archives: Food

Dancing the world of Borough Market

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Chona Valles

Beneath the railway viaducts and flanked by the river Thames and Borough High Street in South East London – just south of the London Bridge – you will find Borough Market, a wholesale and retail food market in South East London. Probably the most renowned food market in London, it spreads itself any which way in an adventure packed series of mazy streets and walkways . All this is housed under a Victorian-style warehouse roof. Continue reading →

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Let Me Eat Rice . . . Please!

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Chona Valles

Can’t eat without my rice! In the Philippines rice is eaten anywhere and everywhere: the usual breakfast fare is left-over rice from last night’s dinner – fried in garlic and onions and served with scrambled eggs, tomatoes and a salted … Continue reading →

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Spicing it up

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Chona Valles

The story of Indonesian spices is quite dramatic, even melodramatic. Wars have been waged, lives lost, empires collapsed, for desire of these spices. The Dutch, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and even the Japanese have sent fleets of ships and their bravest warriors to conquer the Spice Islands and gain monopoly on Indonesian spices.
One can say that Indonesia taught the world the use of exotic spices and herbs. In the West, it was the beauty of Helen of Sparta that launched a thousand ships; in the East, the rare beauty of spices did it. Continue reading →

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