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booksilog?

 
✨ Spent my whole Sunday reading Heavy: An American Memoir, finallyyyy . I went to go see Kiese Laymon read at The Strand back in October, but didn’t get my hands on a copy until last week. I also recently listened to the Longform podcast episod
This morning I pulled myself out of bed and got to the farmers market by 8am. There was no list, really, just an urge to get a tiny bit closer to the food than the grocery store allows. I picked the slenderest little purple carrots, doubled up on som
Last month I spent a week in Portugal, bingeing on seafood and vinho verde, thinking about the sea and foodways and conquest and language, sniffing out bookstores wherever I walked. . Here’s a quick run-down (more info and photos in my highligh
I first read IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK the summer after I moved to New York, almost eight years ago, one of the first Baldwin novels I read. I remember being struck by two things: how Baldwin was writing from the perspective of a young wom
Yesterday I had the great delight of seeing Ross Gay read from his new book at @greenlightbklyn. . I first learned of THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS back when I read Crystal Powell’s interview with Ross Gay in the Fall 2017 issue of @washington_square_re
Light Blue Desire: A Manual for the Color Blue (2018) by Magali Duzant . Thinking about color again lately. Been cooking more, which always has me considering color as a dimension of balance in a dish. Also, this morning I listened to the latest epis

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B O O K · S I · L O G  is a mash-up of my favorites: the quintessential Filipino breakfast dish SILOG, a hearty combo of meat*, garlic rice (sinangag: “SI”), and egg (itlog: “LOG”).

*There are many variations of silog, i.e.:

  • tapa (thin slices of cured beef) + siningag + itlog = tapsilog

  • tocino (sweet cured pork) + siningag + itlog = tosilog

  • daing na bangus (marinated milkfish) + siningag + itlog = dasilog

…my choice here is BOOKS.

Books have fed me since I was a kid, and as an an adult I’ve developed a love for cooking as well. Sometimes I eat while reading, fall down a research rabbit hole of culinary histories, or cook a dish inspired by something in a book, so this is a landing pad for both my bookish and foodish enthusiams… continue reading