“Namit Gid!” goes beyond being a collection of recipes on which we, non-cookers, can rely. It isn't the only the book that provides comfort food to those who have left home. More importantly, it has become a delightful attempt to re-capture the carefree meriendas, the typical children’s parties that ended up in barbecue dinners, the Sunday lunches with extended families, the gossip and the mahjong afternoons, the abundance of sugar, the indigenous fisher-and-mountainfolk of our province, the broth stewed from hand-picked vegetables in the backyard, a visit abroad, and of course, the enjoyable cooking classes with Tita Celine and our camaraderie with schoolmates at SSA-Bacolod which inspired this effort altogether. The notes referring to family traditions and recipe secrets emphasize that this is part of our heritage. It is truly what makes us Bacoleños. - Marisa Tinsay-Van Thillo (SSA-B Class 1983)