In The Know: Apo Island, the ultimate dive destination
Apo Island, located off the coast of Negros Oriental, covers approximately 70 hectares and hosts 106 ha of coral reef.
September 27, 2012
Apo Island, located off the coast of Negros Oriental, covers approximately 70 hectares and hosts 106 ha of coral reef.
If steaks, homemade bacon and bone marrow tacos make you happy, ’Cue Modern Barbecue is the place for you.
It’s about time fruit jams go out of their comfort zone—the breakfast table.
Recently, while reading “Amarcord,” the life story of the much-revered Italian cooking teacher Marcella Hazan, I suddenly felt a deep longing for good, proper Italian food. I guess that’s the same effect the book has on other readers, too, what with the way Hazan described Italian dishes.
Maybe I was brought up properly, but I always ask permission when I want to photograph a dish or a group eating. And so I did just that when I espied three men seated by the roadside in Jerusalem, Israel, enjoying their afternoon repast. I thought that the group, with a painting beside them of people also eating and drinking, made for a good picture.
I recently had the privilege of hosting a chocolatier whose esteemed lineage in the art of creating edible masterpieces spans three generations. Ciocollato connoisseur Enrico Cattapan inherited his skills from his grandfather Nazzareno and his father Orfeo Celestino. For 75 years now, the family has been supplying the quaint little stores in the Veneto region of Italy with its artisanal chocolates.
Most of the items that have made it big in the metropolis originated from the province. In the ’70s, a good friend of mine, Mario Tayag, took me to Aling Lucing’s Sisig, then along the railroads of Angeles, and whispered to me, “Pare, ito, puputok sa Manila.”
After dominating the recent Philstage Gawad Buhay awards, the Philippine Education Theater Association (PETA) is bringing back the award-winning Shakespeare rap musical “William” for a special show at the Cultural Center of the Philippines this September 28.
J.K. Rowling says she plans to return to writing for young people — and doesn’t rule out another book set in Harry Potter’s magical world.
ANDOVER, Massachusetts — The paper conservator’s scalpel picked at the red and black specks, flicking away the fly droppings that had stained Ingrid Bergman’s letter to Ernest Hemingway. “I
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