(* These are recaps of our “Hidden Apron at Home” Instagram Live sessions filmed under quarantine and held on my @errant_diner account. I focus on the fundamentals of cooking as I, a non-chef, understand them. They are based on my experiences learning how to cook… Read More
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On the Best & Worst of Times
A few weeks ago I came across an excerpt from C. S. Lewis’s Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays where the British writer of Narnian fame commented on the anxiety of the Atomic Age (highlights are my own): In one way we think a great deal too… Read More
On Mangos & Melancholy
We walked the noisy streets of Iloilo, eating cheap hamburgers, Banana-cues, and Mangos, knowing a plane was waiting to take us back. But had we not had those miles between us, had their lives not been so different and mysterious to me, had our paths not continue to diverge further and further over the years, had there been less pain in our parting, perhaps we would have enjoyed those humid months a lot less. It was in these moments of realization that I had the best mangos.