On November 3, Christmas (and those coveted planners!) come to Starbucks.Valentine’s Day and Christmas are the two occasions that I get most excited about at Starbucks. Everything from the food to the merchandise and the drinks are aimed to tease and tantalize and this year’s selection succeeds tremendously. Below, my...
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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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“Must we stick to dessert?” Chef Gene Gonzalez asks me. After much discussion over dessert (!) we decide to stick to the sweets.Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . Everybody knows who Gene Gonzalez is: chef extraordinaire, wine connoisseur, cookbook author, and owner of his own cooking school among many other...
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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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“And is this Park Avenue in New York?” I ask.“No, Park Avenue in Pasay,” Buddy says with such a straight face, so used to ignoramuses like myself who don’t even know that such a street exists in Manila. It’s on that Park Avenue where Buddy grew up and learned how to bake by watching his mom, an accomplished baker...
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