Tuesday 7th February 2012

Food & Dining

Fresh Start Organics: Your Partner to a Healthier Lifestyle

Fresh Start Organics in Silay City is more than just a business. It’s a social enterprise helping hundreds of farmers in Negros Occidental with impacts on consumers’ health, fair trade and environmental conservation. The organic movement in Negros Occidental started in the 1980s with players from the NGO sector. It gained a stronger support from [...]

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Fresh Start Organics Store at Robinsons Central Citywalk

Fresh Start Organics will be inaugurating their Organic and Natural Store today December 14, 2011 at the Robinsons Central Citywalk coinciding with the birthday of the owner Chin Chin Uy. Organic consumers will now have a place where they can buy organic fresh produce, rice, coffee, fruit jams, and personal care products of Fresh Start [...]

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Meet the Chefs of the Organic Cookfest 2011

The 6th Negros Island Organic Farmers Festival is no doubt the most anticipated organic event of the year. You don’t get to see all of these world-class chefs and restaurateurs in one event very often. Don’t miss to attend the various lectures on different topics on organic lifestyle and see various cooking demo by the [...]

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Festivals & Fiestas

6th Negros Island Organic Farmers Festival

The organizers of the first and longest running organic festival in the country once again invite organic producers, retailers and consumers to the 6th Negros Island Organic Farmers Festival to be held on December 16-20, 2011 at the Negros Occidental Organic Market and Restaurant at the back of the Provincial Capitol. Negros Island is the [...]

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Comer.Cio: A Bacolod Food Market Soon!

Christmas is the time for bazaars where you can get big discounts and hard-to-find items. However, aren’t you tired of the usual fashion bazaars? Bacolod is a haven for the foodies yet there’s no food market where you can find great-tasting, artisanal food in a venue where you can also enjoy great meals with friends. [...]

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Arts, Culture & Heritage

Silay Beyond the Landmarks

Allow me to borrow the title of a photo album in Silay City‘s Official Facebook page for the title of this blog post because that’s exactly what the bloggers discovered during a heritage tour of Silay as part of the activities for the Philippine Blog Awards Visayas. We are very familiar with images of Silay [...]

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Ready to Experience the Great Adobo Lunch?

The 14th Adobo Festival on Saturday, November 5, 9am-2pm at the Balay Negrense boasts of the The Great Adobo Lunch which will highlight past winning recipes of the annual food competition and fair. The menu will include last year’s winner Adobo Crevette A L’Anglaise by Robert Harland. The other champion Adobo dishes and heirloom recipes [...]

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Caido del Cielo: Heaven Sent for Our Enjoyment

Before they wore the hat of restaurateur, they were already engineers, educators and inventors. Caido del Cielo was not in their immediate plan but as the name suggests, it’s a blessing in disguise sent from heaven for a purpose. The space at Sta. Isabel Bldg. in Yakal St. was initially rented by a friend of [...]

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Food & Dining

A Day About Food, Writing & Negros with Amy Besa

The best part of the workshop was not even because it’s free. I would have paid for it if that was the case. The best part was because Amy Besa was the instructor for the Food Writing and Food Research Workshop. The fact that it’s still free made me doubly grateful to the Negros Museum. [...]

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Will the Original Manapla Puto Please Stand Up?

Not all Manapla Puto (rice cake) are created equal not even when they’re made in Manapla, Negros Occidental. Everybody who’s making puto on a banana leaf these days call themselves Manapla puto. Let’s weed out the copycats from the real McCoy and what do we have? Capulso Manapla Puto. Capulso Manapla Puto claims to be [...]

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Taste the Sweet Success of Merci Pasalubong Treats

A visit to Bacolod City would not be complete without bringing home sweet delicacies such as piaya, biscocho, butterscotch, and tarts among others. Negros Occidental as the sugar capital of the Philippines has helped in the flourishing of the bakery industry in the province. There seem to be a pasalubong center opening in every corner [...]

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