“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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I’m taking you behind the scenes of FOOD magazine’s Christmas issue shoot.Going to ABS-CBN is like coming home for me. It was here that I had my first job right out of college as a newscaster for Studio 23, and a mere four years later, it was also here that I began my career as a food writer at FOOD magazine. Though I’ve...
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This post – more than any other I believe – will demonstrate just how seriously I take DCF readers’ recommendations. And it will also show (embarrassingly enough) how many slices of cake I can polish off single-handedly.By now, you know about my failed first attempt at getting to Cake Planet. DCF tipster RJ’s email to me...
read moreBacolod is where my Philippine sugar dreams come to life.It would be irresponsible of me to leave Bacolod without having coffee at Kuppa, so it’s where we have breakfast on my last day. The coffee doesn’t disappoint. We try the House Blend, a mixture of imported and local beans (bright, low acidity) and the...
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