Category: Parenting

Medicinal Raw Honey Hunting in Ifugao and Ilocos

One of the goals of our 10 day Luzon road trip was to hunt for wild honey in the far flung provincial markets. My usual suppliers of honey have dried up. Even the bees in the farm in Alaminos are on honey strike when I visited last month. Our...

Jumping Shrimp Salad: A Traditional Ilocano Way of Eating Raw Shrimp

My previous post discussed about how we caught and cooked the live river shrimp from Kabigan falls in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte. This morning we had breakfast in Kabigan falls. Found out from conversation with 2 women that their usual, traditional Ilocano way of eating those live river shrimp is...

Raw Wild Honey in Such High Demand and Expensive In Ifugao

On this road trip, our first leg took us to Ifugao province. We took the Nueva Ecija to Bayombong and up route. In every w et market I stopped and asked for honey, pulot in the local language. Always no honey. In Lagawe I asked for honey, no honey...

Be Afraid of GMO Cows Mimicking Human Milk

Thinking of having a new baby? Thinking of the convenience of commercial milk substitutes and condemning your child’s health by not giving him your mother’s milk? Thinking of avoiding breast feeding? Total Frankenstein’s monster news: Genetically modified cows produce ‘human’ milk, Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce...

Veganism Resulted in Vitamin Deficiency Kills Baby

Vegan parents who fed their 11-month-old daughter only vegan mother’s milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday charged with neglect after their baby died suffering from vitamin A and B12 deficiency. Sergine and Joel Le Moaligou, whose vegan BELIEFS diet forbids consuming any animal product including eggs...