Category: Blog
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Postcards from the Pandemic
Yesterday I did an hour of Youtube Yoga, forgot what day it was, cooked this soup and shakshouka and forgot to bathe.Without the Monday – Friday routine of carpools and yoga classes, I’m beginning to feel like that matriarch in Downton Abbey. As always, cooking forced me to focus, with delicious results,. We showed the […]
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Postcards from the Pandemic
Fusion Shakshouka is what happens when your family has eaten all the lamb shanks, leaving gravy to delicious to toss, and a dozen quail eggs too small to fry one by one. Breadcrumbs from last week’s home baked whole wheat loaf stood in for tomatoes to thicken the gravy. And as a special shield against […]
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Postcards from the Pandemic
Culinary Therapy for Covid days I’m not sure which is more stressful — losing audio on a Zoom Yoga class in the middle of a vinyasa, or producing less than a page of decent writing between calls on the day job. Dinner was today’s sole success. This article explains my heightened obsession with cooking https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/how-cooking-became-the-perfect-recipe-for-my-spiralling-anxiety/2020/03/20/a56d068a-4832-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html […]
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Postcards from the Pandemic
I found eggs at Trader Joe’s for the first time today after a two week absence. We stood in line the way folks do for a hot new club or the best Sunday brunch place but spaced farther apart. One TJ employee ushered an old lady in a purple bathrobe to the front of the […]
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Postcards From the Pandemic
Ignorance is bliss. Unaware that Mayor Faulconer had ordered the closure of all beaches, parks and boardwalks in San Diego yesterday, we took what turned out to be our last walk in Balboa Park this afternoon. Unaware that Trader Joe’s has shortened its store hours , we arrived 45 minutes before it closed at 7 […]
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Postcards from the Pandemic
It took nearly two weeks and three groceries to assemble ingredients for Sunday dinner. One night, smoked ham hocks were all that remained in the meat section at Vons. I froze them and hoped. Several days later, collards showed up at the halal grocery I grabbed 5 bunches. The salmon came from a third […]
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Postcards from the Pandemic
Welcome to my blog within a blog, which combines the need to write with the compulsion to procrasti-bake/cook in times of stress. March 21 Saturday brunch was Quail Eggs in a Hole with home cured lox and home-baked whole wheat bread. As expected, brunch looked adorable. To crack open a quail egg, click on this […]
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The Mango Bride Gets a Twofer in Podcasts
By either sheer coincidence or great good fortune The Mango Bride was featured in two podcasts that celebrated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! You can listen to each one at the links below: https://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes/episode-14-marivi-soliven-s1!a88c6?fbclid=IwAR3mbhM15bxPcB42ziyiYoVD-OXIxfp8dw818Q3525hBOo5YrIcdGf4CzDI https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/blog/2019/05/15/ep-66-the-astonishing-color-of-after-and-the-mango-bride
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A Script is Born
When I visited Manila in 2013 to launch The Mango Bride, Roselle Monteverde, head of Regal Entertainment, the oldest surviving film studio in the Philippines, reached out to me about adapting my novel to film. Talks continued sporadically over the years, but this past June they sealed the deal with a contract for the Filipino film version of […]
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The Mango Bride’s in Good Company
Five years after Penguin released The Mango Bride National Book Store not only continues to keep it in stock but also displays it in the winners circle. Hemingway to the left, Steinbeck to the right, what’s not to like?
Marivi Soliven 