Choosing the subject matter every year for the Doreen Gamboa Fernandez Food Writing Award (DGF Award) is a delightful chore. From the 11th year of the competition in 2013 up to the 22th edition in 2022, the board has decided that the focus should be on ingredients used in cooking.
SIR ANRIL Pineda Tiatco (no, he’s not a knight; his first name really is Sir) has authored a new book on Philippine theater.
Margarita Araneta Forés marks her 31st year in the culinary industry, and what a career it’s been. She has evolved from a socialite/culinary dilettante to one of Asia’s most influential chefs.
Last July 30, an article in the New York Times remembered the late Filipino academic, writer and cultural advocate in a lengthy article recalling her career, her writing, and even her discreet political leanings during martial law—when she sheltered leftist rebels, even as she was accused of writing “bourgeois” subjects.
Every life establishes connections with others along the way-but then there is that singular life which touches and transforms every life it encounters.
