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Susanna Namuli's avatar

Thinking along with you about the trend towards simpler, slower living.

I'm still not sure what to make of it, you know. Or whether communities that are still in the simpler, slower stage should keep going towards faster, more advanced, and then to come full circle to desiring simple, slower; or just remain simple, slow.

Faster, more advanced seems to deliver better health care, education, generally higher standards of living; only to cause a longing for simple, slow.

Hmm.

This is a fascinating essay, Jen. Loved your sharing of the detail of making the Filipino snacks.

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Jen🧚's avatar

Susanna, I think faster and modern do not necessarily result to "better" anymore. We used to think it does, but come to think of it - does it really?

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Susanna Namuli's avatar

I don't know.

Perhaps like all things it's here and there.

I don't think 'slow' would make it to the great innovations that improve health systems, for instance.

It was great that someone noticed the connection between eating fruit and avoiding scurvy.

It was also great that someone then mass produced vitamin C tabs for those who couldn't find fruit around them.

It is not great when Big Pharma goes nuts, though.

But neither was scurvy.

I don't know.

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Julie Wise's avatar

What a delicious introduction to Filipino snacks! My mouth is watering...😉

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Jen🧚's avatar

Hi Julie!!! I hope you have a place wherever you are where you can try some of them! I will even teach you how to pronounce them 😊

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Julie Wise's avatar

Always open to learning another language! Especially when food is the topic.

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Jen🧚's avatar

what could be a better way to learn another language other than food, indeed!

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Tracy's avatar

These are beautiful vignettes of your time spent with family in your beloved country- thank you for sharing! I have never tasted any of these snacks but they sound wonderful.

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Jen🧚's avatar

I hope you could try some of them Tracy!

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

I found this fascinating. An insight into the childhood of another is always interesting. It is good to return home every now and again to step back into a steadier pace of life.

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Jen🧚's avatar

A steadier pace! I love the sound of that Trudi.

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Karen Louise Hodgson's avatar

For a time, my mum was an assistant cook in a secondary (11-16 year olds) school. Two recipes that she downsized were spaghetti bolognese, and sweet and sour sauce. They were written on paper towels. I’ve still got them somewhere, and have used them myself. I think I was in my final year or two of primary when she worked there, so would have been 9-10 years old (1976-77).

For snacks, it has to be biscuits called melting moments. They are soft, but not chewy, technically not really a biscuit at all, but not cakes, either. They have desiccated coconut coating, with a glacé cherry on top.

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Jen🧚's avatar

Hi Karen! Thanks for sharing! I am going to search for that soft biscuits online now. 🥰

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