Between cake and pie, I will always choose pie. These pies.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . In the play Boston Marriage by David Mamet, there’s a quote that sums up why I love pie so passionately: “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” Pie to me, is pastry pleasure, a...
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I think I must have been high when I shot these photos.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . They say that a person eats with the eyes first but I could make an equally impassioned argument for people who eat with their noses first. Consider Addie Wijangco’s ensaymada. As I’m unwrapping and preparing these...
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Her name might not be familiar to you at first, but that’s because there’s been a name change.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors Sugarbee is the former Fudgies by Jenny S., maker of those tempting molten lava cakes in the shape of a huge flower, the result of baking them in those aluminum ensaymada molds. If...
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Tina is special to me because we started our food careers at the same magazine and as a food writer, I’ve gone on to write about her illustrious desserts.Tina already had her dessert business Taza Platito when we were both contributing to FOOD magazine (ABS-CBN Publishing) some years ago. She was and still is a legend for her...
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Millet Soberano is a culinary magician who makes magical things with chocolate.They stare up at me like seashells floating on a plate of white. Brown, like the color of chocolate smoke and as deeply aromatic. They’re called madeleines, individual scallop shells of sponge cake that are “…so strictly pleated outside and so...
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I dream of Mara’s crepe cake – all 20 layers of them.Manila’s dessert landscape sparkles with stars, one of which shines brighter. It’s the crepe cake, or properly referred to as the Gateau de Crepe (Vanilla) made by Mara de la Rama-Poblete. A simple cake it is, but one made entirely out of crepes, paper-thin and...
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