Christmas is a time of hurlyburly shopping and razzle dazzle decor. It’s the shopping that stresses; early on, the exercise for me extended to Christmas Eve.
Celebrities have the enviable power to make people listen, move them to action—and make a difference. Here are two personalities who are using their celebrity status to help the less fortunate and convince other people to follow suit.
For her French onion soup, Chef Stephanie Zubiri used red onions grown by farmer Ligaya Oria, 68, in Nueva Ecija. Floating on the soup was a piece of toasted pandesal topped with blow-torched native cottage cheese. Zubiri, 26, trained in France and runs the Modern Epicurean Kitchen. Chef Sau del Rosario of Le Bistro Vert [...]
How would you feel if you were invited to a party, and upon arriving, are asked to sit on the floor and share with other guests a meal of rice and water? Meanwhile, some of your friends are led to a fancy table where waiters bring them a full-course meal. Another group of guests eat [...]
Your mother’s stern reminder at the dinner table may be off the mark. “Finish your food. Millions are going hungry,” may not be entirely true. “Almost a billion” is more like it. Estimates from the Oxfam publication, “Growing a Better Future (Food justice in a resource-constrained world),” show that the world needs 70 percent more [...]
