Experts advise that one should never do business with family or friends, if one wants friendship and kinship to last. However, childhood friends Dani Aliaga and Sergi Rostoll, who founded the successful Barcino, a Spanish wine and tapas bar, belie that truism.
Perhaps this is what some would jokingly call sosyal na tilapia, or tilapia for society’s upper crust. Cut into fillets, stuffed with olive tapenade and served on a pool of tomato sauce that’s been infused with wine and saffron, it’s a far, far cry from inihaw na tilapia or some such dish.
It still doesn’t capture the full richness of the dish we tried in Madrid, Spain, but it’s good enough to serve to family and friends.
At the Flower Dome in Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, peaceful coexistence takes on a new meaning. It’s perhaps the only garden in the world where Africa meets Australia, where prickly desert plants bloom side by side with stately pine trees, and where thousand-year-old olive trees from the Mediterranean thrive near exotic ghost trees from Madagascar.
I have tried many foreign cuisines in Manila. Most of them I really enjoyed although there were a few I wasn’t too crazy about. I realized the ones I didn’t enjoy were inauthentic.
STOCKHOLM — Punters are putting their money on this year's Nobel Peace Prize going to Greek islanders who have opened their hearts and homes to hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
A new large-scale study has found for the first time that Mediterranean coffee drinkers benefit from a lower risk of death.
Women who follow a diet rich in fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, and olive oil may stand a better chance of falling pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), researchers said on Tuesday.
Postmenopausal women eating a Mediterranean-style diet were found to have higher bone mass and muscle mass.
Following the popular Mediterranean-style diet as we age could help boost longevity by reducing the risk of death from all causes.
