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Food triggers memories. Last weekend, I made my mom’s pancit and while I was shredding chicken breasts after boiling them to make chicken stock, I suddenly found myself transported back to our tiny...
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Birthdays are always celebrated with plenty of food in my family. Lots of food. My mom, now in her seventies, still never fails to deliver a lavish spread, way more than our huge family could eat....
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With one snip a pair of plump pods fell into my bowl. They were as round and as long as my ring finger. Skins were spotless. Unblemished. The sugar snap peas that we planted from seeds in February had...
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Pancit bihon and kutsinta [kooch-in-tà]. I can still taste the rice noodles and the coconut crumbs on the soft, round rice cakes. They were makunat [mah-koo-nat], the way I like them, the reason I...
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