I was a latch key kid. Do you know what that is? I haven’t heard the term in a while and I wonder if people still use it? If you’ve never heard the term before, here is how it is described in Wikipedia:
A latchkey kid or latchkey child is a child who returns from school to an empty home because his or her parent or parents are away at work, or a child who is often left at home with little or no parental supervision.
Anyway, with both parents working, my sisters and I would come home from school to an empty house. The TV was our baby sitter. Although we saw TV families with moms who had nothing to occupy their time but laundry and bingo games, always with after-school snacks at the ready, we (my sisters and I) didn’t really find it strange that we didn’t have a mom who did that.
And although we had wonderful male role models in our father, step-father and grandfathers, we didn’t find it strange either that they were so different than all the TV dads we watched on the tube. We realized at a very young age that TV does not necessarily portray real life. Never the less, we were fascinated with all the shows especially sitcoms.
Thanks to Our Awesome Planet for the heads up on this: No Reservations – Philippines. Ever since we took cable TV out of our home I have been out of touch with the going ons of my favorite cooking and travel shows.
I subscribe to the OAP feed via email and it’s my way of eating through the Philippines vicariously through Anton and family’s dining adventures. So today I opened my subscription expecting to read about another delectable restaurant I probably will never get to try out, I instead found out that No Reservations has been to the Philippines and the show (episode) aired just a couple of days ago on the Travel Channel. The show went there because Augusto Elefano managed to convince Anthony Bourdain to take No Reservations to the Philippines with this video.
I was also excited to find out that Anthony was hosted by Joel of Market Manila, a food blog that I have been a great fan of for years. If anyone can talk ‘lechon’, Joel is the man. The guy is as obsessed about pork as Bourdain. He’s built his own roasting pit and has been cooking up one pig after another in his quest for the perfect lechon, after all!
I am excited to learn that the video of the show is in YouTube. Yeay, YouTube! So I’ll rush home later and watch the whole thing! I’d watch it now but I’m at work
Anton of OAP was kind enough to compile the links below for related articles about this episode.
Today on Good Morning America, they were talking about how much humans consume and waste over a lifetime. One of the points they illustrated was the number or mountains of diapers a child goes through. It is a daunting amount when you are shown the pile. An added trivia is that that huge pile of disposable diapers will probably not degrade within that babies lifetime. Unbelievable huh?
The piece is a promo for the more in depth (I hope) “Human Footprint” on the National Geographic Channel. A longer feature is supposed to air on 20/20 tonight.
I think I will watch the show later just to see if my question from this morning is answered. While I was getting dressed for work, the story caught my attention because they were talking about the huge impact disposables are having on the environment then turned around and also added that cloth diapers aren’t much better because of the resource and power they use up when laundered. I kept waiting for them to say something about what could be should be done about reducing not just the human footprint in general, but just the darn diapers! But, the answer never came. I guess that’s why they call it a teaser.
If you’re interested as I am, watch the story Friday on “20/20″ at 10 p.m. ET, and watch the premiere of “Human Footprint” on the National Geographic Channel Sunday, April 13.
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