I was 14 years old when the verdict came down that the four cops who had beaten Rodney King on live television had been pronounced not guilty. I wasn’t a news nerd just yet, but that didn’t keep me from being glued to the news footage of rioting in L.A. that night.
I was at work last night, trying to finish up so I could get home to my family, when I saw multiple tweets from my buddy Marc, making jokes about Jeremy Lin. I knew who Jeremy Lin was, but Marc was a baseball and football dude — why was he tweeting Lin jokes? Turns out every Asian American I knew (and I know a lot of them, obviously) on Twitter and Facebook was tweeting the heck out of the Knicks/Lakers game — all in favor of Jeremy Lin.
But it wasn’t just an Asian American thing — Jeremy Lin has captured the attention of all basketball lovers. What is it about this guy? Is it simply because he’s the first American of any Asian descent to really do well in basketball? Is it because he’s Christian? Is it because he happened to explode on the scene in New York, where dreams either come true or die, and not much in between? I’m trying to figure it out.
(Trinity, by the way, was mostly just so irritated by the Lakers horrible shooting night that he didn’t even want to hear any discussion about Lin. I think he thinks I have a crush on him, but that’s not the case. Lin is simply a fascinating case study of sudden celebrity.)
Post-partum eating is supposed to be high in protein, to help with losing the baby weight and also to keep you going because you’re losing 500 calories a day while nursing. So both these recipes are handy for those purposes.
I have another reason for learning these recipes and posting them. These are comfort foods that my mom used to cook all the time. And, unlike most American comfort foods, these are actually pretty healthy.
I’ve had a spike in traffic from people searching for pictures of Elita Loresca’s baby. Folks, I’ve only blogged about Elita Loresca once. Now, this makes twice. Seeing my traffic spike, I went to her Twitter page to see if there were any clues whether she had had her baby yet. Yep, looks like she had her baby in September. So I went to her Facebook page, as her Twitter suggested fans should do. Aha! Pictures of her little cutie pie. I’m not posting any pictures of her baby, since they’re not mine to post. But congratulations to Elita and here’s to getting our little bundles of joy on a sleep schedule quick!
As I’ve mentioned before, there’s not a lot of Filipino food out there that’s available for sale that will live up to what my mom used to cook. I do have a theory — most Filipino restaurants that have lasted more than a few years do one dish really well, and the rest of the food they serve is is just OK. With the advent of these gourmet food trucks serving Filipino food, I’m not too sure if that theory is holding.
Let me get to the point. I tried out the White Rabbit Truck Friday. It was their good luck — or maybe not — that they decided to come to the CBS Studio City Radford lot the day I had brought a sandwich to work and was just looking for a reason to buy something other than my sandwich. So I immediately went to the ATM and took some cash out and took a lovely walk out to the main gate.
