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Planning Meals for Diabetics
Last year, Ms Dinna Dayao suggested that the blog describe how I choose what to eat at each meal, especially outside the home. I beg your indulgence for not having responded to this earlier. But this will be the subject of today's article.
For the most...
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Cakes in Language and Literature
In Dictionary of Proverbs [London: Brockhampton Press, 1995], one of the proverbs refers to cakes: "You can't have your cake and eat it," a saw that uses this food article to provide a broader lesson on life. Idioms referring to cake generally imply that...
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Philippine "titbits, dainties, [and] sweetmeats" are known in Tagalog as "kakanin". These are called "koro [or] kakanon" in Bikol, "kalan-unon" in Hiligaynon and Cebuano, "kánkanén" in Ilocano, "kakanén" in Pangasinan, "makaon" in Cebuano, "karaunon" or "pagkaon" in Samar-Leyte or Waray...
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The Origin of Chewing Gum
The article of Encyclopedia Britannica on chewing gum defines it as the "sweetened product made from chicle and similar resilient substances and chewed for its flavour." It observes that "Peoples of the Mediterranean have since antiquity chewed the sweet...
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Candies are usually associated with children and childhood, and, by the time people reach adulthood, they would have "graduated" to something else. That is perhaps one reason why they might seem awkwark candidates to be given sugar substitutes. But the ARE eaten by adults, too,...
