(In this lookback of the first #FKEDUP live collaboration in Boston this past February, Paolo Espanola and Sarahlynn Pablo reflect on the team’s brunch pop-up and participation in a regional conference for Asian-American students.) Part 1 It takes a certain kind of muted masochism to… Read More
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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
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
A Summer Welcome: Harlem Rooftop Picnic
I once read that there are more than 50 words for “snow” in one of the Eskimo languages. And while I like to think I have 50 of my own, they all happen to be vulgar and unfit for print. Summer however, yields a far… Read More
The Life and Death of the Mystery Meat Group (Part 2)
(Even though I’ve said it before, many thanks to Coco-Mat SoHo for hosting, ARK for planning, and the numerous volunteers for throwing down….yes….uber-belated thanks) My co-worker commented the other day that I haven’t blogged in a while and the fact that I haven’t puzzled me.… Read More