Kitchen Memories
i have fond memories of the kitchen. a common filipino phrase sums up my love affair with food: "lumaki sa kusina". that literally translates to "growing up in the kitchen" but is more commonly used to refer to someone who is uh... portly. you see, "lumaki" can also mean "grow fat". that aside, i literally grew up in a cooking environment as my mom ran a carinderia / restaurant. we used to play out in the fields all day and would come running in the restaurant, grubby and smelling like the sun. my brother and i would jostle in front of the food counter and point to the dishes that appealed to our fancy. i remember the cook shooing us as we try to grab a little more than what we're supposed to have. Breadwinner, Kitchen - Greenbelt 4. Crostinni with a variety of sauces. my sisters took over the restaurant after college and when they left for the US, no one from the boys took over the business. by that time, all of us have been deported to baco...