Kneading romance out of a pizza dough
Chef Alexander Lichaytoo Tanco prefers simple, easy-to-prepare food when cooking for his girlfriend, Liz Yap.
Chef Alexander Lichaytoo Tanco prefers simple, easy-to-prepare food when cooking for his girlfriend, Liz Yap.
For many, Paniqui, Tarlac, is not the final destination, but a mere passageway to other places.
When he brought home recently two super-soft loaves of sandwich bread in regular and ube flavors, my curiosity was roused. I could not resist the loaves that were on our dining table. I had to try them, and I was very happy!
The place is easy to miss. Not only is there no signage on the door, the façade gives you no clue, either, that here lies the best Asian cooking in the country.
In 2001, I came across Café Metro along C5, Libis. The food was simple home cooking—a lot of traditional Filipino fare, plus anything the owners felt was delicious enough to serve.
Vegetarian food—as our survey proves—has never been this good and varied, belying the notion that vegetarian dishes are bland and dull.
Australia is sometimes referred to as the land down under, but I think it would be just as appropriate to call it the land of abundant milk and honey. After all, Australia has a reputable and long-thriving dairy industry, and it produces some of the world’s best honey in territories like Tasmania and Kangaroo Island.
I had the chance to chat with esteemed food photographer Mark Floro after the pictorial he did for me of Saisaki’s Chef Takada. I asked for food photography tips for someone like me, who owns a Canon G-10 point-and-shoot and wishes to use it more skillfully, to visually express the flavors that my palate captures. Here are some of his tips:
If there is such a person as a Renaissance man of pâtisserie, surely he is Grégoire Michaud. The affable Swiss-born pastry chef at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong refuses to limit himself to just one area of the baking arts.
There’s a new food court at The Fort on 7th Street. It is similar in concept to Serendra but magnified in terms of space.
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