What an event it was the other Saturday, 14 April! I expected a busload of curious culinary enthusiasts, eager to learn more about Pampanga’s cuisine. True enough, there was a family from Bicol who thought of doing the tour to learn about the food which seems to have reached mythical proportions in the realm of Philippine cuisine. What I was not prepared for was a handful of Capampangans hoping to better understand their roots.

Cultural appreciation through food! Isn’t that what I’m really advocating? Fantastic.

After a day eating and discussing the principles and little-known facts about Capampangan cuisine, what do our guests have to say about their tour?

Read all about it on Karlo’s blog.

There you have it! Indeed, a proper presentation of our cuisine, in its right context and a showcase of its evolution is much appreciated. Even with the heat of summer, the tour was such a success that not even a day passed when the organisers were already getting requests for succeeding trips. They just had to schedule another one.

The next trip will be on 5 May 2007. The details are also on the Sleepy Traveler’s announcement.

Some of you may have seen the tour featured on QTV 11’s Sapulso last Monday, 23 April 2007 at 10:00 p.m.

I really, really do need to finish my draft posts. It’s the last quarter of the year and I don’t want to be dealing with backlog in 2007, hehehe! I should be done with the memes with this one. The beautiful Iska tagged me with Food meme around the world. Here are my answers:
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I’ve been remiss with posting (what’s new?) and even with correspondence. When life interferes, I am hardly online. Before more of the same posts, here’s a meme courtesy of cabalen Ces. The instructions are to write ten things not commonly known about me. For this blog, I’ll keep them food-related. I’ll also try to answer some of the questions I get from friends and readers.

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