one filipino dish a week

Merry Christmas from my family to yours! Eat Filipino Food!

Below is the conversation that sparked this entry

paoix: When you eat chicken you kill the chicken
The Girl: No, someone else kills the chicken
paoix: Yes, but you are the cause that the chicken is killed
The Girl: I will not eat the chicken that I kill. The chicken is already dead. Someone else killed it. If no one will kill the chicken I will not eat chicken.
paoix: The reason that the chicken gets killed it’s because you want to buy the chicken to eat it
The Girl: But I only want to buy the chicken that someone else killed
paoix: Which in essence you killed because they wouldn’t have killed if you did not have the desire to buy

This repeats several more times without any resolve. So here it is out there for everyone to continue the discussion and maybe come to a resolve. I am of the camp that because us consumers demand chicken we are the main reason that chickens get killed for food. Because of our need for chicken (the demand) someone will always kill a chicken (the supply). A market is created and because of the demand that’s the reason why chickens get killed. The Girl on the other hand is on the camp that she’s only buying the chicken because it’s already killed. And essentially she’s not the reason for the chickens death because it’s already dead.

Obviously, this can be substituted for any type of meat that we eat. To me this is an interesting discussion because we have been so distanced from our food supply that we have no idea where our food comes from or how it is made. The grocery store is as far back in the lifecycle as we go. We’ve become pretty complacent with accepting that the food in the grocery store is safe (including myself). This ignorance leads to dangerous food borne diseases and to some extent the obesity problem in the US.

Bringing it back to the discussion… are you a chicken killer? so, what say you?

As summer takes a bow, we all hope for an encore and we all are wondering where did the summer go? Summer went by so fast that I feel like I haven’t done everything to fully enjoy it. For some reason the last remaining gasps of summer is making me nostalgic about street food. How I wish to get a whiff of the amazing smell from the BBQ stands of Cebu. Or get a taste of that special sauce of the shrimp tempura cart. Be it New York City, Beijing or Cebu City street food is a must try. But seriously, what’s in that sauce that everyone dips the tempura cart?

Eat Filipino Food!

Excitement abounds! There is no way I was going to let this quest of finding more about Filipino food without going to the Philippines. So tomorrow I will be headed back to the motherland and devour my way through her bounty

Stay tuned for posts (probably very intermittent) but in the meantime… Eat Filipino Food!

Welcome to One Filipino Dish A Week V1.2! haha… I was starting to get tired of the dreary looking webpage. It just didn’t make you feel like you want to cook or eat. This makes it a little bit more open and a little more lively. I also decided to make a new home for the blog… so change your bookmarks it’s now onefilipinodish.com. More food posts coming really soon.

Eat Filipino Food!