Six weeks after the imposition of martial law in September, 1972 I left the country through its “back door” for Sabah in Malaysia. A year and a half later my wife and two young sons, 3 and 2, rejoined me in Japan.
Food is the Filipino social gathering’s center of gravity. We’re nearly all completely powerless against the apparently irresistible expectation of endearingly familiar, thumb-lickingly good, and hopefully plentiful, food – perhaps especially so in southern California, Los Angeles in particular
Many were stunned to learn a few days into the New Year that a Filipino father in his mid-30s had killed his two daughters, five and one, and then himself- all with a knife in the parking lot of a Catholic church in Montclair, California.
