Atsuete replaces tomato sauce in cooking

One lucky day, a few weeks ago as my mother in law was clearing the garden, she saw that our neighbor's atsuete tree had grown over to our side and had lots of ripe atsuete fruit. Suddenly we had lots of organic atsuete in our hands. What to do … [Continue reading]

Bugoy’s tailbone pain, his wallet and his upcoming marriage

I saw my brother during this Christmas vacation.  Happy to see him I gifted him with a copy of Dr. Henry Bieler's book Food is your Best Medicine.  Also gifted him with a DVD of Food Matters.  Bugoy was jolly fat, as fat as I once was in 2001.  He … [Continue reading]

My sandfly bites are now mere scabs

In 1994 I was bitten by sandflies in the beaches of Boracay island.  I suffered for 2 years of what I recall as leishmaniasis.  The dermatologists were of no help then, they injected me with steroids until I got exasperated at the pain.  Then I was … [Continue reading]