Fil-Am chef makes waves in Santa Cruz, California
The recent selection of Carlo Espinas as executive chef of the new restaurant Assembly in Santa Cruz, California, was, in culinary parlance, a perfect pairing.
April 11, 2014
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The recent selection of Carlo Espinas as executive chef of the new restaurant Assembly in Santa Cruz, California, was, in culinary parlance, a perfect pairing.
The Philippines, through its Department of Tourism unit in San Francisco, was an exhibitor at the recently concluded Outdoor Adventure and Travel Show at the Vancouver Convention Centre on May 8-9.
Hundreds of students and art enthusiasts flocked to the University of Southern California (USC) Fisher Museum of Art for the opening of “The Triumph of Philippine Art,” the first exhibit ever dedicated to contemporary Filipino art on the West Coast.
Growing up an avid reader, writer M. Evelina Galang never encountered stories about young women role models, or stories about Filipino Americans. The absence of these subjects has motivated Galang to write stories that empower young women, specifically telling the Filipino American experience.
Merrin Mae Fuentebella made it look easy when she found ways to hurdle the surprise challenges in Food Network’s new cooking competition “Cutthroat Kitchen,” but she learned the skill of improvising during an uncertain but pivotal time in her life.
More than a thousand hungry food fans dropped in or lingered, but most definitely grazed, throughout Saturday, Nov. 23, at Kulinarya 2013 at City View in the Metreon.
There are many ways overseas Filipinos show their gratitude for the outpouring support and sympathy for the survivors of the Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” One is to express it in our own words verbally or in printed words and incorporating the Visayan “Daghang salamat sa tanan.”
By the time the PDAF or the pork barrel scam was first exposed in national dailies in the Philippines this summer, Oakland-based expatriate Rick Rocamora was already two decades ahead of the game.
You enter McDonald’s with a wait staff offering you mango pineapple mojito by a chef named Jessica Foust and you wonder if you’re in the right place. You’re led to an elegant expanse of a room that is humongous by New York standards, as it snakes around to reveal a 180-degree view of New York’s skyline. You say, not bad.
Filipino artist Rafael Maniago has summer treat for Filipino-Americans. The painter and poet, who was born in Mexico, Pampanga, has been giving free painting classes at the Filipino Migrant Center in this city.
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