I owe a lot to the readers of this website. They’re the pulse of Dessert Comes First, my guides to the ever-changing food landscape that is Manila. One such reader’s tip leads to the discovery of a charming little bakery and finally, good egg tarts.12 Baskets is a little neighborhood bread shop, a panaderia of yore all grown...
read moreFinally, a sticky toffee pudding cake that doesn’t make my teeth ache.The trouble with most sticky toffee puddings is that they’re often too sweet, tooth-aching collisions of saccharine and sauce clashing into cake. I imagine that much can be done to mellow this straight-shooting spear of sweet. I’ve finally found a home...
read moreI’m speaking at a food writing workshop in October. Consider this my invitation to you to have lunch with me and listen to my talk about food writing.Nikka Sarthou and I were colleagues in a small internet company ten years ago and we got along well. But the vagaries of our daily tasks then are all but lost to my memory and so...
read moreA good friend will do anything for you. Except share her dessert.Two friends, Maude and Juno, are doing lunch, a favorite activity for women getting together. Today, the restaurant is bustling — surprising, given the weekday lunch hour and the distance from any main business district. Given the absence of a maître d’,...
read moreOne restaurant’s cheese steak leads to an at-home version.GoodFellas (one word) is a restaurant located in the artery of streets bordering Kamuning and the Scout area in Quezon City. It pops up out of nowhere, a disparate entity amidst the beer gardens, barbecue joints, and barbershops. Inside, the restaurant is a consecration...
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