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Food Is Always Cheap (MONEY AND COST MYTHS, #1)

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"Food is always cheap" is one of the most confidently repeated claims about life in the Philippines—and one of the fastest to collapse once someone starts living here full time. It sounds reasonable. Street food is inexpensive. Local meals cost little. Market prices look low compared to Western grocery stores. From the outside, the conclusion feels obvious.

From the inside, it doesn't hold.

This book exists because food costs are not determined by geography alone. They are determined by habit...