‘Feast with Me’ is more than a cookbook
Stephanie Zubiri-Crespi is someone who follows her heart on everything—with absolutely no reservations.
Stephanie Zubiri-Crespi is someone who follows her heart on everything—with absolutely no reservations.
Way before the time that chefs became fixtures on television, Anthony Bourdain was known as a bad boy chef, a renegade who pioneered the idea of “sex, drugs and mise en place.”
For years, the United Nations has been trying to wean Westerners off meat consumption and onto the more sustainable, healthier, protein-rich diet of beetles, caterpillars and wasps.
BETH Romualdez’s son Benjie gave himself a buzz cut in front of his mother on the day she was set to shave her head. At that time, she was undergoing chemotherapy following a diagnosis of Stage 1 breast cancer.
At lunch last year in Paniqui, Tarlac, the host showed me a cookbook printed by the Metropolitan Press in 1939 that was translated from the original Tagalog by a Valentina Basilio. It was a surprise to see that Filipinos still cook the dishes of the prewar period.
For award-winning cookbook author, foodie and restaurateur Amy Besa, adobo should be cooked the proper way—from choosing the right vinegar to creating the right coloring and browning of the dish. Moreover, what to pair your adobo with must also be considered.
He will prepare a special dinner at Nobu Hotel in City of Dreams Manila.
Year 2013 was a busy one for the culinary scene, with lots of culinary competitions, food festivals, celebrity chef cook-offs, food and wine pairings, degustations, book launches and the coming together of food companies, establishments and foodies to extend help to survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”
In the beginning, it was all about the flour. The year was 1958, and Liberty Flour Mills, Inc. had just started business. But immediately, it sought ways to expand its lucrative wholesale market and was soon packing its flour in smaller, more accessible retail sizes.
I never imagined I would see it happen—a cookbook which I can’t hold, whose pages I can’t turn, and which weighs practically nothing. And yet it accompanies me everywhere.
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