Hotel holds progressive dinner to launch rewards program
It was an all-out party, indeed, to show what is in store for members of The Table. We began the Experience (for it really was) at one of the bridges
It was an all-out party, indeed, to show what is in store for members of The Table. We began the Experience (for it really was) at one of the bridges
Usually, I meet the authors of books only through their work and the biography that introduces them somewhere in the back of the book, just before the first chapter or on the sleeve of the book jacket.
Why are people promoting adlai in this country?
The annual August rains didn’t diminish the crowd that trooped to the Philippine Readers and Writers Festival of National Book Store at its sponsor hotel, Raffles in Makati, last week.
Thoroughly high-tech, they produce the “embutido,” “jamon” loved all over.
Renowned American pastry chef Nick Malgieri smiled and said, “It’s been eight years…” He was referring to the last time he was in Manila, in 2008, for a baking demo for Food magazine.
The romance of a Spanish jamon seems to start with the cortador (professional ham slicer), who works with a knife that looks like a shortened samurai sword.
The irony was probably lost to those around the table at Shang Palace in Makati Shangri-La.
The Orchestra was playing “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” whose melody is adapted from Frédéric Chopin’s “Fantaisie-Impromptu.” It seemed the appropriate background music as we walked down The Peninsula Manila lobby to the hotel’s Old Manila restaurant, but sans the dancing steps.
There was a good harvest of quality essays submitted to the Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award on its 13th year.
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