To say it was humid that day was an understatement. Having to walk 15 blocks to the supermarket in a polo and jeans, walk back with several bottles of patis and coconut oil, and then proceed to cook in a sweltering kitchen with an industrial size… Read More
All posts by “Paolo Española”
We Hosted Our First Pop-up Dinner…And I (Almost) Wanted Us to Fail
(Note: for pictures and more info on our co-conspirators, check the links below!) You mind can really fuck with you while washing dishes. When you’re elbow-deep in soap, your fingers caked in coagulated fat, and your shoes are unrecognizable in a thin coating of rice flour… Read More
Being Too Busy is a Lame Excuse for Skipping Breakfast
So it’s a new week and there’s plenty to celebrate: it’s Tuesday (yeah my coworkers hate me for actually enjoying Mondays and Tuesdays), it’s almost August (fewer sweaty days on the subway), and it’s Eid (Eid Mubarak to everyone who’s celebrating…esp my roommate who can finally eat… Read More
SALO Chicago with Yana Gilbuena
(Photo credits: Cassandra Sicre & Eileen Zara, Video by SALO Series.) Cooking in a Filipino kitchen has always been chaotic for me. Oil from the frying short ribs was splattering everywhere, the oven wasn’t heating up fast enough, the person bringing the ice (who was… Read More
Strawberry Sorbet in Almond Milk: Summertime Dessert
I used to hate sorbets. To me, a sorbet was nothing more than frozen water flavored with some neon-colored sugar water; an affront to ice cream. If the king and queen of desserts had a bastard child….it would be the sorbet. I mean, who could… Read More



