Rougie is the most popular foie gras company in France. Just last week, I was invited to the kitchen of Tivoli at Mandarin Oriental Manila in Makati, to watch, with a few others, a cooking demonstration on the preparation of this French specialty, which happens to be my most favorite food on earth.
“We need to establish Filipino restaurants abroad,” observers note. “In major cities there is always a Chinese, Indian, French, Japanese restaurant—but no Filipino restaurants!”
In 1957, my mom Nora started the very first cooking show, “Let’s Cook With Nora,” on ABS-CBN along Roxas Boulevard. Television was only black and white back then, and there were only two or three channels. In later years, I remember many known personalities who would go and visit the cooking studio to eat whatever was cooked on that day. That went on until the ’90s.
