‘Mangan Taku’ boasts of Cordillera’s cuisine, aims to boost culinary tourism
The first ever Cordillera food fair dubbed as “Mangan Taku” aims to put Cordilleran cuisine into the spotlight.
The first ever Cordillera food fair dubbed as “Mangan Taku” aims to put Cordilleran cuisine into the spotlight.
One of the most iconic fixtures in a Filipino home is the Rebisco Assorted Biscuits Tin Can — that multi-colored can of snacks that generations have always loved. Through the
With Filipino indigenous culture as their “peg,” directors Floy Quintos and Alex Cortez, under the supervision of Nes Jardin, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2015’s creative director, staged “Fused,” a 40-minute after-dinner extravaganza Saturday night that showed delegates in Cebu City the best of Filipino music, dance and fashion.
No tinikling, rondalla or cheesy folk songs. Instead, there were hip-hop, tribal drums and sopranos in Grecian gowns because, finally, the bureaucracy has realized the need to upgrade the entertainment offered to foreign guests.
Calligraphy artist Kristian Kabuay has launched his third publication, a coloring book for young Filipino Americans, called Kulay (Color), on the ancient Filipino script called baybayin, incorrectly known as alibata.
All families have their secrets, but in fiction, the wealthier and more powerful the family, the more secrets they keep. Make it a wealthy, fictional Filipino family, then you will have secrets that will inevitably come back to change everything.
Lesson One from Professor Sonia P. Ner: “When you start on your journey towards your goal, be sure to enjoy the journey itself. Don’t focus only on your destination, only on getting what you want. Often enough in life, you might not achieve your goal or arrive at your dreamt-of destination. But if you enjoyed the journey, you already got something for your efforts. That may sound like ‘consuelo de bobo’ (consolation for the stupid), but it’s worse if you don’t enjoy the journey itself because then you get nothing but disappointment; you won’t have any consuelo. You’ll just be the bobo!”
In the past, when a family decided to settle in another area, they didn’t need to hire movers. All the family had to do was gather the townsmen, who would move the entire house.
On the last day of her five-day visit to the Philippines, during the cocktail reception hosted by Sen. Loren Legarda at the National Museum’s Fabella Hall on Friday afternoon, Queen Sofia of Spain reserved her biggest praise for the country’s fresh fruits, particularly mangosteen. She earlier asked for a bottle of Coke, but Legarda, who isn’t a big fan of sodas, offered her fruit juices instead.
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