About Asia, by Asians
Ifugao Organic Rice: Healthy and Responsible Consumerism [05/05/2009@4:45 pm]
A significant number of farmers all over the Philippines are now busy shifting to organic farming after pilot farms have demonstrated that organic farming has not, contrary to the previously circulated propaganda, lowered the farm yield.
MANILA, Philippines - It is not true that only the cultivation of hybrid rice would enrich farmers.
This claim is false, organic [...]
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Virgin Coconut Oil vs. Swine Flu [05/04/2009@7:53 pm]
A newsclip recommended VCO to boost immune systems to counteract the virus Swine Flu that seems not to have spread too much in asia thus far.
Virgin coconut oil vs swine flu proposed
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 12:51:00 05/04/2009
MANILA, Philippines—The spread of the new influenza virus called the H1N1 or commonly known as the swine flu has [...]
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Kalamias: Medicinal Herb and Main Ingredient for Claypot Tambakol, Tulingan or Tawilis [05/04/2009@7:19 pm]
There’s a very old kamias tree that grows in our backyard.
Last year, a businessman asked me to try out his new product that was still on R&D - liquefied kamias and coconut oil cleaning fluid. He gave me a a few liters of it and I used it to clean kitchen tile and wash [...]
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Earth Day Agenda: Biodegradable Plastic & Grocery Liquid Dispensers [04/29/2009@4:16 pm]
If Congress can legislate a ban on trans fat and shut out business of imported cooking oil from our local market, how much further can it go do you think to protect the environment and keep food and other essentials within reach of the poor domestic consumers?
Ask any manufacturer of shampoo, of seasoning, of instant [...]
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Perk up your rice [04/29/2009@3:11 pm]
A foreigner visited the Philippines, tried the local cuisine and wrote in his blog how amazed he was at the ceremony with which we serve our rice—and he was just commenting on a restaurant practice of shaping rice in a small bowl and inverting it onto a plate.
What he probably didn’t know is just [...]
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