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Chefs to share kitchen wisdom in culinary dialogue
From September 27 to 30, Purple Yam will open its kitchen in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park for “Culinary Dreams: Filipino-American Chefs Forum and Dinner Party,” a hybrid event where open dialogue and scrumptious dinner will have an experimental performance. The public forum-cum-dinner party from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. will feature a bicoastal cast of seven […]
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A Filipina in City Hall
By Cristina DC Pastor You can count in one hand the Filipinos who work at City Hall. Maria Rosana Cruz, 25, who is a project coordinator and a special assistant to the Commissioner on the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, is one of them. Maria came to MOIA more than two years ago through a […]
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18 ‘balut’ in 5 minutes
By Cristina DC Pastor With that, 27-year-old Hollis, Queens resident Wayne Algenio set a record for balut-eating in New York, the first competition of its kind in the city. In a YouTube video, Wayne could be seen focused at stuffing his mouth, drinking bottled water and occasionally dancing. At the end of the Maharlika-organized contest, […]
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Who’s afraid of ‘balut’?
It’s not for the faint of heart or those with queasy stomachs. But eight New Yorkers are out to make competitive eating history when they signed up for the First ‘Balut’-Eating Contest to be held on August 25 in Brooklyn. ‘Balut’ is duck fetus boiled, dipped in salt and washed down with beer. It is […]
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‘Kain at Kuwento’ with Claude Tayag in Lexington, MA
When Anthony Bourdain of “No Reservations” went to the Philippines, he sought Claude Tayag to show him how Filipinos eat! On May 22, Claude will make a special trip to Boston for an evening of gastronomic nostalgia and conversation, according to Nina Givan of Nutmeg social networking. “Kain at Kwento” with the Tayags will be […]
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Off the beaten path to nursing
By Cristina DC Pastor One need not go through hoops to become a nurse. Ravilynne Sanga shows one can be an RN on her own terms. No need to take up math and arts subjects and be waitlisted to get into the highly competitive program. The Jersey City-born Rave began with a three-month course to […]
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‘Tokwa’ and ‘pata’ to-go in Staten Island
By Cristina DC Pastor For Jersey City couple Leopoldo and Ravy Sanga, no bridge is too far to Staten Island’s newest destination. Isla Pilipinas is the latest Filipino restaurant attempting to conquer New York. But instead of opening in the Manhattan familiar to many, owner Maggee Villanueva chose the lawn chair suburbia of Staten Island, […]
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Building her brand from scratch
By Cristina DC Pastor Name it and Adora Adora-Penn will fashion it into a lovely cake. A Louis Vuitton bag, a stiletto shoe, Rayban shades, a bottle of wine. She even demonstrated on YouTube how to make a pregnant lady using two molds to scoop out the cake “boobs” and two layers of rounded cakes […]
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How in Manhattan in 2002, Doreen Fernandez was ‘ready’
By Tony Joaquin Long before she became known for her critical writing on food which later led to several distinctive books on Philippine cuisine, writer, educator and critic Doreen Fernandez was a fellow jazz aficionado. Café Indonesia in the 1950s was our jazz oasis for after-hours dining and singing. She and I became regular habitués […]